The Parable of the Persistent Widow

The Parable of the Persistent Widow
 
And the Teacher said.
 
In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'
 
For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming and badgering me!
 
And then he had second thoughts, and had her arrested for harassing him, and thrown into prison; from there, her case would be dealt with by the Procurer, Pontius Pilate
 
When her case came up before, Pilate was moved by her plight, and decided to exercise leniency, in the Roman way. He could have had her thrown back into the imperial dungeons, but as an act of mercy, had her taken to a strange town, far from Judea, where she was left destitute.
 
And the Teacher said.
 
Will there be justice to those who cry out to God day and night?