Christianity retold
Outside the Gate is based on Luke 16: 19-31
There was a man from a wealthy family who had everything – good clothes, fine foods, his children at the best schools. They lived in a gated community and just outside that gate was a refugee, named Lazarus.
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The Two Daughters is based upon Matthew 21.28-32
This is a very easy parable to retell in modern terms, because it uses a situation that repeats in every generation. The writer Paula Gooder jokingly calls it: ‘the parable of the wet towels’. We could even have it as: ‘the parable of the dirty socks’.
[Read more…] about Commentary – The Two Daughters (Matt. 21:28-32)The Two Daughters is based upon Matthew 21.28-32
So a mother had two daughters. She went to the first and said, ‘Love, can you go and work in the shop today?’
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Ravens and Flowers is based upon Matthew 6.25-33
The first question is: are these even parables? Are they sayings instead? Some commentators (for example, Paula Gooder) place them in the ‘not-parables’ category. Birds and flowers, frankly, live in the real world. They don’t need to be placed in the narrative, ‘story’ world of the parables.
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So I’m telling you, don’t worry about going hungry or thirsty, how you’ll live or what you’ll wear. Life’s more than food and our bodies are more than the clothes we wear.
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The Three Employees is based on Matthew 25:14-30
There is a variation on this parable in Luke 19: 11-27; the parable in Matthew seems to be a more basic version, missing out Luke’s explanation of the journey and omitting several characters. Matthew places this parable between Jesus’ visit to the Temple and the Last Supper, and states that Jesus told it privately to his disciples rather than to the crowd.
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