Parable #9 …Luke 12:42-48…Faithful and Wise Servant 42 And the Lord replied, “A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them. 43 If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward. 44 I tell you the truth, […]
Parable #8 Luke 12:35-40 Watchfulness Be Ready for the Lord’s Coming 35 “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 as though you were waiting for your master to return from the wedding feast. Then you will be ready to open the door and let him in the moment he arrives and knocks. 37 The servants who […]
Parable #10 One of the most prominent features of the four canonical gospels in the New Testament is the parables attributed to Jesus. Estimates usually place the number of parables somewhere between thirty and eighty, though if the definition of parable is expanded to include any simile or proverb, then just about every statement attributed […]
Parables #12 The Wheat and Weeds Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 Jesus tells a second parable about sowing seeds, this time …about two sowers — one who sows good seed to grow wheat, …and the enemy who sows weeds among the wheat. For this parable too, Jesus offers an extended metaphoric …interpretation to his disciples in private. […]
Parable #11… Matthew 13:3-23 …The Parable of the Sower…(also known as the Parable of the Four Soils) And we find it inMatthew 13:3-9Mark 4:2-9; andLuke 8:4-8 Let’s read fromMatthew 13:3-23…3 He told many stories in the form of parables, such as this one:…“Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seeds. 4 As he scattered them across his […]
Parable #23 Matthew 18:23-34 Unmerciful Servant 23 “Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a king who decided to bring his accounts up to date with servants who had borrowed money from him. 24 In the process, one of his debtors was brought in who owed him millions of dollars.…( Greek 10,000 talents [375 tons or 340 metric […]
Jesus’ Parables in Chronological Order Four Kingdom of Heaven Parables Before we continue let’s just look once again at the series we are doing at the moment namely the Parables of Jesus Jesus could have just come out and spoken the truth by just teaching the people. …He could have just stated the truth in […]