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At a deeper level, we are all the eleventh-hour workers; to change the metaphor, we are all honored guests of God in the kingdom. It is not really necessary to decide who the eleventh-hour workers are. The point of the parable—both at the level of Jesus and the level of Matthew's Gospel—is that God saves by grace, not by our worthiness.
Accordingly, Jesus Christ never used the messenger formula, which linked the prophet's words to God in the prophetic phrase Thus says the Lord. [11] The Bible refers about the prophetic nature of Christ in the following verses, among others: John 17:4 – "I have glorified thee on earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." [12]
In Parables as Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed (1994), William R. Herzog II presents a liberation theology interpretation of the "Parable of the Talents", wherein the absentee landlord reaps where he didn't sow, and the third servant is a whistle-blower who has "unmasked the 'joy of the master' for what it is — the ...
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Jesus and John the Baptist (15th century). The Parable of the Two Sons is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew (Matthew 21:28–32).It contrasts the tax collectors and prostitutes who accepted the message taught by John the Baptist with the ostensibly religious people who did not.
Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973) Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) The Passover Plot (1976) Jesus of Nazareth (1977) The Nativity (1978, TV) Jesus (1979) Journey to Bethlehem (2023) The New Media Bible: The Gospel According to St. Luke (1979) A Child Called Jesus (1987) The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) The Revolutionary (1995) The ...
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The film depicts the life of Jesus Christ and his struggle with various forms of temptation including fear, doubt, depression, reluctance, and lust. The book and the film depict Christ being tempted by imagining himself engaged in sexual activities, which caused outrage from certain Christian groups, claiming the work as blasphemy.