The retold Parable of the Tenants
Retelling a Parable – Choices
The major change in retelling this parable is the change from ‘vineyard’ to ‘house’. The parable of the tenants that Jesus tells (Matt. 21. 33-46, Mark 12.1-12, Luke 20.9-19) is set in a vineyard, probably because Jesus is drawing on the Old Testament image of the land of Israel as God’s vineyard. Changing that to a ‘house’ loses that direct link to the Old Testament imagery.
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