The past few weeks we have been following the Revised Common Lectionary gospel readings for Sunday. From now until Advent we are reading Jesus’ parables in the Gospel According to Matthew. Often we read and study a parable apart from its context. We treat them as little stories with morals. But parables can be perplexing. […]
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The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard
You can find a very brief introduction to what a parable is, here. This week’s parable (Matthew 20: 1-16) is sometimes called the parable of the laborers in the vineyard. You can read the parable here. The titles of parables are shorthand labels that we can use to refer to the parable. They are not […]
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