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We often get too curious about evil in a culture that is constantly denouncing it publicly. Yet Paul gives apparently contradictory teachings expose the works of darkness and yet that it is a shame to speak of them. The solution is to expose by shining in the light and truth. Jesus does this with the "unseen" woman in the synagogue whom he makes visible, gives status to, and heals. When the ruler using legal reasoning rebukes them, Jesus shows the illogic of his rebuke resulting in the people's seeing the glory of the action, and ignoring the ruler's shame. We are to do likewise: easy to say but requiring God's grace to do.