Tag: Lost Sheep
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Household: Lost Sheep, Luke 15:4-7 (Part 2)
Kenneth E. Bailey shows that this portion of the Luke 15 parable is a combination of straight parallelism with an inverted parallelism in the middle. 1. YOU 4 "Which one of you, having a hundred sheep 2. ONE and losing one of them, 3. NINETY-NINE does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness A. LOST …
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Household: Lost Sheep, Luke 15:4-7 (Part 1)
We have just explored the Old Testament Shepherd metaphors. It is time to back up and review what led to this parable in Luke 15. 1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners…
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Household: Introducing the Evangelium in Evangelio
Jesus was a metaphorical theologian in the tradition of the rabbis of his time. He may have spent as much as eighteen years before initiating his itinerate ministry as part of the haberim, a local community of Jews devoted to studying the Scripture. Rabbis typically drew on the rich wealth of stories and themes in…