The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard shows the lesson of equality and mercy. The landowner offered one denarius, and the workers were grateful and willing to work for exactly that much. Those workers were apart of the first group of workers. However, when it came to the last group, who only an hour, opposed to the workers who worked all day, got paid the same amount. This is equality, however, not doing the workers in the first group justice. This relates to how Jesus offers mercy to whoever he chooses. Not only the ones who sins the least, or attends church the most. Whoever he chooses to provide his mercy.
Sunday, January 31, 2016
The Parable Of The Good Samaritan
The Parable of The Good Samaritan has many meanings in the text. Within the story, the lawyer asks Jesus what he has to do to obtain eternal life. Basically asking him, what he has to do, in order for Jesus to allow him to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Like as if, there were certain steps and tasks that must be done in order to obtain eternal life.
However, Jesus understands that it's not a matter of what he needs to do, but a way of living life, in order to obtain eternal life. The parable also includes someone getting robbed, stripped and beaten. A priest and a Levite pass by without helping him, however, when a Samaritan passes by him, he helps him. This is ironic, because you would genuinely expect the priest or levite to help him and not the samaritan because of their reputations. However, it turned out to be the other way around.
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