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Preaching the Parables: From Responsible Interpretation to Powerful Proclamation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Craig Blomberg demonstrates how the structure of a parable is key to its interpretation and thus to its exposition. He shows how a parable, when properly contemporized, can be a powerful rhetorical device. He also illustrates how recognizing the elements of the parable that were atypical to everyday life can lead to key insights that will be of significance to contemporary parishioners. Each of...

and I will pay you back.” But verses 27 and 30 reflect as diametrically opposite a pair of reactions to the pleas as Jesus could have portrayed. The king forgives the enormous, unpayable debt. The servant just forgiven that debt has his underling thrown into prison. Little wonder that the second man’s fellow servants were “greatly distressed” (v. 31). The word used here could also be translated “outraged.” We’re meant to react to Jesus’ story with distress and anger as well. This is an example of
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