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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Parable
Commentary: Ravens and Flowers
Ravens and Flowers is based upon Matthew 6.25-33
Parable or Not?
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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Ravens and Flowers is based upon Matthew 6.25-33
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
Differences from Luke
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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The Three Employees is based on Matthew 25:14-30
God’s nation is like an entrepreneur who was going on a years-long journey, who called in three of his employees and gave them all his seed capital. One of them got one million pounds, one of them got four hundred thousand pounds and one got two hundred thousand, each according to the entrepreneur’s appraisal. Then he went away.
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The Two Parables
The Ten Budgets is based on Luke 19: 11-27
The basic form of this parable – servants entrusted with money by someone going on a journey – appears in the Gospels in two versions. The version in Luke is told just before Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem and is a parable for the crowd. They thought the Kingdom of God was going to appear immediately; this parable (according to Luke) is partly a warning that it won’t.
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