Is the Darnel Among the Wheat parable an allegory about eschatological events, or a lesson about God’s character?
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LOY Excursus: Synoptic Fidelity to the Anthology
How closely does a pericope reproduce the pre-synoptic source that stands behind Matthew, Mark, and Luke?
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Jesus, His Mother and Brothers: A Test Case for Lindsey’s Hypothesis
How does Lindsey’s solution to the Synoptic Problem measure up when applied to the story of “Jesus, His Mother and Brothers”? Watch this video to find out.
A Woman’s Misplaced Blessing
When a woman in the crowd praised Jesus’ person, he redirected her attention to the Kingdom of Heaven, which is realized through the doing of God’s word.
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Spontaneous Growth Parable
An exploration of a parable unique to the Gospel of Mark.
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Yeshua, His Mother and Brothers
Did Jesus reject his natural family in favor of a spiritual kinship, or did he pay Mary and his brothers the highest possible compliment?
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Four Soils Interpretation
In the Four Soils interpretation Jesus explained the meaning of the imagery in the Four Soils parable.
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LOY Excursus: The Genitive Absolute in the Synoptic Gospels
What can the distribution of genitive absolute constructions in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke tell us about the origins of the Synoptic Gospels?
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Four Soils Parable
By not revealing what the Four Soils parable was about until its dramatic conclusion Jesus drew in his audience and held their attention, making them the very thing the parable urged them to be: good listeners.
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“Four Types of Hearers” complex
Read the Four Soils parable in what may have been its original literary context.
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