God’s kingdom; seeking lost “sinners”) and, in the case of the exploited widow, upending “the stereotype of poor helpless widows, exemplifying instead the strength of weakness and the power of persistent pursuit of justice.” Most dramatically, Reid envisions all three parable women as “feminine images of God.”48 The downside, however, especially concerning the widow’s judicial tale, is that Luke’s surrounding context, in Reid’s view, severely blunts the parable’s original liberating thrust. Here