The Parable of the Widow and the Unrighteous Judge

18 Then Jesus told them a parable about the [fn]need to pray at all times and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he would not do so, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not wear me out by continually coming to me.’ ” 6 Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And will not God surely bring about justice to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, [fn]while also being patient with them? 8 I tell you that he will bring about justice for them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”