Hear Then the Parable: A Commentary on the Parables of JesusHear Then the Parable is an innovative literary-social reading of all the parables of Jesus. |
Contents
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Approach and Strategy | 63 |
Part Two Family Village City and Beyond | 79 |
How to Mismanage a Miracle | 127 |
What If No One Came? | 161 |
You Cant Keep a Good Woman Down | 175 |
Whos That Masked Man? | 189 |
Part Three Masters and Servants | 205 |
Am I Not Doing You Right? | 293 |
Part Four Home and Farm | 301 |
One Rotten Apple | 321 |
A Garden of Delights | 331 |
What Did the Farmer Sow? | 343 |
What If They Gave a War? | 363 |
The Mustard Tree | 377 |
Finders Keepers | 389 |
18a | 213 |
A HardHearted Man | 217 |
Reading of the Will | 237 |
The Kings Accounting | 267 |
Wheres the Fox? | 405 |
Epilogue | 419 |
Index | 453 |
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Hear Then the Parable: A Commentary on the Parables of Jesus Bernard Brandon Scott No preview available - 1989 |
Hear Then the Parable: A Commentary on the Parables of Jesus Bernard Brandon Scott No preview available - 1989 |
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Popular passages
Page 169 - And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
Page 144 - These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.
Page 140 - If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled", without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?
Page 214 - Will any one of you, who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep, say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down at table'?
Page 112 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one ; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 243 - For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you and surround you, and hem you in on every side, and dash you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the time of your visitation.
Page 99 - A certain man had two sons : And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the. portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Page 72 - Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
Page 72 - Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you; but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.