Tag: Parables

• Food for Thought (ii)

  Rather than being dismissive because of disbelief in ‘miracles’, my previous post suggested understanding gospel accounts, like the feeding of the 5000, as ‘story-parables’ rather than historical facts. But if this is a story, where might the idea originally have come from? The early followers of Jesus, being Jews, were well versed in the Hebrew…

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  7th Feb 2023

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Religion

  Feeding of 5000, Gospels, Hebrew Bible, Holy Grail, Jesus, Literature, Miracles, New Testament, Parables, Psalm 23

• Food for Thought

  It troubles me that some people have no interest in reading the Gospels because they can’t take seriously some of the things they read there. An example is the “feeding of the five thousand” from five loaves and two fish. As it happens, this is an instance of occasional patriarchal prejudice. According to Matthew 14:21,…

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  5th Feb 2023

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Feeding of 5000, Good Samaritan, Gospels, Jesus, Love, Miracles, New Testament, Parables, Patriarchy, Sharing

• Loaves and Fish

  There’s a story in the New Testament about 5,000 people being fed with 5 loaves and 3 fish, and it appears in all four of the Gospels. As it happens, it was reckoned by two of these Gospels to be such a good story, that they each staged a re-run with some tweaks – 4,000…

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  6th Jan 2021

  Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, New Testament, Religion, Uncategorized

  Contagious, Gospels, Kindness, Parables, Sharing, Thoughtfulness