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This parable stands among the parables of the kingdom in Matthew 13. The pearl is found by a man who had been looking for something like it his whole working life. "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a…
Parables of ChristJesus told this parable as the fifth in a run of kingdom parables recorded in Matthew 13, following the sower, the wheat and the tares, the mustard seed, and the leaven. It stands beside its twin, the parable of the…
Parables of ChristJesus accepted an invitation to eat in the house of a Pharisee named Simon, one of a number of such invitations He accepted despite the suspicion many Pharisees held toward Him. A meal in that setting was not always a…
Parables of ChristThe disciples of John came to Jesus with a question about fasting. "Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?"1 Both John's followers and the Pharisees kept regular fasts as marks of piety, and the…
Parables of ChristJesus spoke this scene near the end of the Olivet Discourse, in the last days before His death, as the third and final movement in a sequence that began with the ten virgins and continued through the talents. The virgins…
Parables of ChristA man came out of the crowd gathered around Jesus and interrupted Him with a private grievance. "Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me."1 The request assumed that Jesus stood in the place of a…
Parables of ChristJesus told this parable on the Mount of Olives, in the last week of His life, in answer to a question His disciples had asked about the sign of His coming and the end of the age. It follows immediately…
Parables of ChristJesus told this parable within days of the cross. It stands in the last block of His teaching, after the ten virgins and before the judgment of the sheep and the goats, and all three deal with the same stretch…
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