Graphic Bible · Scene 4 of 5
Galatians 4:21-27
Two women in Paul's argument
Children, Not Slaves · Galatians 4
Story guide: Disclosed visual essay of Paul’s allegory in Galatians 4:21–27. Hagar and Sarah are depicted as dignified persons; the image makes no claim that present-day Jewish people are slaves.
Open this scene in the reader →21Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant woman and one by the free woman.
23But the son by the servant woman was born according to the flesh, while the son by the free woman was born through promise.
24These things are being interpreted allegorically, for these women are two covenants: one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
25Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is enslaved with her children.
26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
27For it is written: “Rejoice, barren woman who is not bearing children; break forth and cry out, you who are not in labor; because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”
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