the travel narrative. Within the account of the journey to Jerusalem, there are three discourses of Jesus, addressed to both the disciples and the crowds, on the topic of possessions (12:13–34; 16:1–31; 18:18–30). These teachings anticipate the sharing of possessions during the church’s infancy when “all who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need” (Acts 2:44–45).3 The parable itself is framed by two