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This depiction of the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant on a stained glass window in Scots' Church, Melbourne shows the initial forgiving of the debt, and the final punishment of the unforgiving servant. The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant (also known as Unforgiving Creditor, Ungrateful Servant, Unmerciful Servant, or Wicked Servant but not ...
Chapter 18 of the Gospel of Matthew contains the fourth of the five Discourses of Matthew, also called the Discourse on the Church or the ecclesiastical discourse. [1] [2] It compares "the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven" to a child, and also includes the parables of the lost sheep and the unforgiving servant, the second of which also refers to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Parable of the Unforgiving Servant; Parable of the Unjust Steward; W. Parable of the Wedding Feast; Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen; Parable of the Wise and the ...
Many of Jesus's parables refer to simple everyday things, such as a woman baking bread (the parable of the Leaven), a man knocking on his neighbor's door at night (the parable of the Friend at Night), or the aftermath of a roadside mugging (the parable of the Good Samaritan); yet they deal with major religious themes, such as the growth of the ...
Parable of a scribe; Parable of Drawing in the Net; Parable of the Hidden Treasure; Parable of the Pearl; Parable of the Tares; Parable of the Ten Virgins; Parable of the Two Sons; Parable of the Unforgiving Servant; Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders; Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard; Perez (son of Judah) Pontius Pilate's wife ...
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The parable does not seem to be an attack on Pharisees, but rather an attempt to teach Simon to see the woman as Jesus sees her. [4] [5] The description of the woman suggests that she is a known prostitute, [4] [5] [6] although this inference is disputed. [7] If she is a prostitute, her presence defiles the Pharisee's ritual purity.
The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant, c. 1556. Van Hemessen painted a very wide range of subjects, including religious, mythological and allegorical scenes, nudes, portraits and genre scenes. Van Hemessen was one of the earliest Netherlandish artists to exploit the genre character of biblical subjects often for a moralizing purpose. [7]