Parables in Gospel

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I just finished reading 2 parables in the Gospel, the talent and the man who found a pearl.
They are the most inspiring parables to me. I believe they are the best.

But I think they are the most misunderstood. I reckon most Christians don't understand them. Can anyone here interpret them correctly ??

 

[eyeSalveRich]

By “the talent”, I presume you don’t mean the one in Mt 18 that owed ten thousand talents, but instead you mean the one in Mt 25 where servants were given five, two and one talents.

The biggest thing commonly missed in that parable is the meaning of the servant given one talent.

This servant was not a real servant at all. He called his master a thug and a thief “a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed”. Therefore his master judged him according to his words, repeating his own offensive words indignantly, in the judgment. “you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed. 27 Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest.” So essentially he said “Oh, you knew I was a thief did you, then you should have stolen for me”, since the law considers usury theft. That servant was cast into outer darkness. This judgment rules out personalizing it into someone who was simply a lazy Christian. Christians who do not earn many rewards do not get cast out of the kingdom. Sheep stay in the fold but evil goats are cast out.

This is part of a much larger set of teachings that started in Matthew 21 when Christ made his finally entry into Jerusalem. With it he also passed his final judgment on the Jews. Most all of those five chapters are about that judgment.

 

[Always in His Presence]

I just finished reading 2 parables in the Gospel, the talent and the man who found a pearl.
They are the most inspiring parables to me. I believe they are the best.

But I think they are the most misunderstood. I reckon most Christians don't understand them. Can anyone here interpret them correctly ??

Yes

 

[eyeSalveRich]

Yes

You are so verbose with your answers.

 

[Always in His Presence]

Can anyone here interpret them correctly ??

You are so verbose with your answers.

It required a yes or no answer.

Unless the author was making it a challenge, in which he should have stated it as one.

 

[Laurabenson]

I just finished reading 2 parables in the Gospel, the talent and the man who found a pearl.
They are the most inspiring parables to me. I believe they are the best.

But I think they are the most misunderstood. I reckon most Christians don't understand them. Can anyone here interpret them correctly ??

Oh I love the ones about the treasure, once found, giving all you have for it.

That's the way it is when you receive the holy spirit.

 

[Aibrean]

Usually the parables are explained by Jesus after he gives them.