#parable — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #parable, aggregated by home.social.
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Please join @Bigdad1211 and myself as we look at the #Parable of the Nets during Sunday School Express: https://youtube.com/live/2JwQUMfsxcs
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Please join @Bigdad1211 and me as we delve into the next parable: the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. https://www.youtube.com/live/nKj5dg_agvM
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The Lamb Beneath the Millstone
A Parable of Good Friday
Every morning, the people of the village woke to the turning of the mill.
#allegory #breadAndMercy #ChristianSymbolism #crossAndSacrifice #devotionalReflection #GoodFriday #hiddenSuffering #holyWeek #kingdomOfGod #parable #Redemption #sacrificialLamb #spiritualAwakening #sufferingLove #symbolicStory #villageMill
They heard it before dawn: the low groan of stone upon stone, the creak of beams, the steady labor that promised bread by noon. Mothers kneaded dough to its rhythm. Children carried flour home in little sacks. Old men at the square tore crusts apart with grateful hands and said, as they always said, that the village endured because the mill endured.
No one thought much about what kept it turning.
There were rumors, of course. There had always been rumors.
Some said the lower stone had been set long ago upon a foundation of bone. Some said the first miller, desperate in a year of famine, had made a bargain with hunger itself. Some said that now and then, if one stood very still in the hush before dawn, beneath the grinding and the groaning one could hear something softer still—a muffled crying, the sound of something gentle bearing a terrible weight.
But bread has a way of silencing questions.
And so the stones turned. And so the people ate.
Then, one spring, on a day, darkened though no storm had been forecast, the mill began to groan louder than before. Not with its ordinary labor, but with pain. The whole frame trembled. Flour drifted through the air like pale ash. The people gathered outside, clutching their baskets and aprons, muttering that if the mill failed, all would fail.
The miller himself, white with fear, shouted for silence.
That was when they heard it.
Not the grinding. Not the wood straining. Beneath it all, there came a cry so small and so wounded that it seemed impossible it had gone unnoticed for so long. It was not the cry of something wild. It was not rage. It was not even accusation.
It was the sound of innocence suffering quietly beneath the weight of everyone’s hunger.
Men took crowbars to the stone. Women pulled at the beams with bare hands. Children wept without knowing why. At last, with great effort, they lifted the upper millstone just enough to see what lay beneath.
There, crushed into the dust and darkness, was a lamb.
Its wool was matted white and red. Its body was broken. Its breathing was shallow. Yet its eyes were open.
And when the villagers saw it, they understood with horror what they had refused to know: all these years, their daily bread had come at a hidden cost. Their life had rested on a silent suffering. Their peace had been built upon the one beneath the stone.
No one spoke.
The baker, whose hands had fed the town for forty years, fell to his knees first. Then the miller. Then the mothers. Then, the old men who had praised the strength of the mill. One by one, all who had eaten came down into the dust.
For the first time, they did not ask whether there would still be bread tomorrow.
For the first time, they asked what kind of village they had become, that a lamb could be crushed beneath their life, and they call it blessing.
The sky darkened further. The wind rose. The lamb let out one final shuddering breath.
And the mill stopped.
No one moved to start it again.
That evening there was no bread in the village. Only silence. Only grief. Only the terrible unveiling of what had always been hidden beneath their ordinary life.
But years later, the old ones would still say that was the day they first tasted truth.
For before that day, they had only eaten bread.
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John Locke and Opportunism. The last of a 13-part series of a chat with Claude AI on the Parable of the Valley
https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/22/comrade-claude-13-locke-opportunism/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
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Le Guin and Zamyatin follow Foucault in my exploration of the parable of the two valleys with Claude, part 8 of 13.
👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/27/comrade-claude-8-le-guin/?utm_source=masto
We explore how speculative fiction often anticipates complex philosophical theories and the prescience of 'We'.
#philosophy #politics #psychology #society #humancondition #blog #podcast #power #freedom #books #parable #speculativefiction #tyranny #ussr #foucault #leguin
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I ask Claude how Michel Foucault might consider the parable of the 2 valleys.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/26/comrade-claude-7-foucault/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
I also realise that I lose at least an hour a day just managing my blog posts and social media, as I'd regained that time recently due to spotty internet connectivity owing to a snowstorm in New England.
#philosophy #psychology #Foucault #power #politics #parable #ai #claudeai #blog #podcast #institutions #selfregulation #metaphor #panopticon #truth #society #language #freedom #change
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I continue my discussion with Claude about the Two Valleys parable to talk about the economy of moral control.
Comrade Claude (6) – Nietzsche https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/13/comrade-claude-6-nietzsche/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
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Thomas Gouge, a Puritan minister, reflecting on the rich man and Lazarus, warns that unmerciful wealth is spiritually perilous. The rich man’s sin was not luxury alone, but withholding even crumbs from the needy. Gouge presses his hearers to be “free and forward, liberal and bountiful” toward the poor—treating generosity not as optional kindness, but as a chief Christian duty.
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Proudhon said property is theft, but Claude tells me that property is violence.
Which one is correct? Why not both?
#philosophy #property #locke #rousseau #proudhon #fairness #morals #ethics #parable #islands #humancondition #fences #luck #metaphor #psychology #blog #podcast #claudeai #ai #writing #thinking
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Proudhon said property is theft, but Claude tells me that property is violence.
Which one is correct? Why not both?
#philosophy #property #locke #rousseau #proudhon #fairness #morals #ethics #parable #islands #humancondition #fences #luck #metaphor #psychology #blog #podcast #claudeai #ai #writing #thinking
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Proudhon said property is theft, but Claude tells me that property is violence.
Which one is correct? Why not both?
#philosophy #property #locke #rousseau #proudhon #fairness #morals #ethics #parable #islands #humancondition #fences #luck #metaphor #psychology #blog #podcast #claudeai #ai #writing #thinking
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Proudhon said property is theft, but Claude tells me that property is violence.
Which one is correct? Why not both?
#philosophy #property #locke #rousseau #proudhon #fairness #morals #ethics #parable #islands #humancondition #fences #luck #metaphor #psychology #blog #podcast #claudeai #ai #writing #thinking
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Proudhon said property is theft, but Claude tells me that property is violence.
Which one is correct? Why not both?
#philosophy #property #locke #rousseau #proudhon #fairness #morals #ethics #parable #islands #humancondition #fences #luck #metaphor #psychology #blog #podcast #claudeai #ai #writing #thinking
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First in a series where I ask Claude to analyse the Two Valleys parable from various perspectives.
Sure, you could have run the stories through yourself. In fact, you still can, but this was the start of my dialogue. I centre the dialogue on my anti-Enlightenment sentiments.
#philosophy #blog #podcast #ai #claudeai #generativeAI #dialogue #analysis #dialogue #Enlightenment #critique #justice #rationality #progress #consent #parable #perspective
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First in a series where I ask Claude to analyse the Two Valleys parable from various perspectives.
Sure, you could have run the stories through yourself. In fact, you still can, but this was the start of my dialogue. I centre the dialogue on my anti-Enlightenment sentiments.
#philosophy #blog #podcast #ai #claudeai #generativeAI #dialogue #analysis #dialogue #Enlightenment #critique #justice #rationality #progress #consent #parable #perspective
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First in a series where I ask Claude to analyse the Two Valleys parable from various perspectives.
Sure, you could have run the stories through yourself. In fact, you still can, but this was the start of my dialogue. I centre the dialogue on my anti-Enlightenment sentiments.
#philosophy #blog #podcast #ai #claudeai #generativeAI #dialogue #analysis #dialogue #Enlightenment #critique #justice #rationality #progress #consent #parable #perspective
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First in a series where I ask Claude to analyse the Two Valleys parable from various perspectives.
Sure, you could have run the stories through yourself. In fact, you still can, but this was the start of my dialogue. I centre the dialogue on my anti-Enlightenment sentiments.
#philosophy #blog #podcast #ai #claudeai #generativeAI #dialogue #analysis #dialogue #Enlightenment #critique #justice #rationality #progress #consent #parable #perspective
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First in a series where I ask Claude to analyse the Two Valleys parable from various perspectives.
Sure, you could have run the stories through yourself. In fact, you still can, but this was the start of my dialogue. I centre the dialogue on my anti-Enlightenment sentiments.
#philosophy #blog #podcast #ai #claudeai #generativeAI #dialogue #analysis #dialogue #Enlightenment #critique #justice #rationality #progress #consent #parable #perspective
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Part 2 of a triptych modern parable on a divided culture no longer divided by geography.
#philosophy #culture #modernity #Enlightenment #property #markets #economics #blog #podcast #parable #humancondition #surplus #abundancy #scarcity #critique #reason #writing
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Please join @Bigdad1211 and me as we dig into the #Parable of the #ProdigalSon tonight during Sunday school express! https://youtube.com/live/ZCYqXwJMRZk
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Je m'accuse. I grievously squandered a Saturday, rendering a parable about communication.
⛰️ https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/01/two-valleys-diverged-in-a-mountain-range/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=socialClaude did the heavy lifting after extensive dialogue and goading. Even worse, the dialogue continued, extending the story and generating more content.
#philosophy #language #communication #writing #claudeai #ai #stories #biomes #abundance #scarcity #worlds #words #risk #growth #perspective #parable #moral #difference #cooperation #psychology #empathy #blog #podcast #video -
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I know #rocketry is no longer cool, the billionaires ruined it, but spare an old #nerd making a #parable on #parenting with it:
1. Your kid, born with all, is the 2nd stage of an orbital rocket
2. The time you spend with your kid is designing and building the primary stage of the rocket
3. You as parents are the booster stages connecting to itThe point is getting to orbit. You have the most thrust, but you detach first. Also the stage you built together only gets them to the edge of #space.
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I wrote a short story, a sort of parable, and you can read it first if you subscribe (for free) to my ghost. I'll release it to subscribers later today. I am titling it "To Sea."
Subscribe here: https://stuff.davidaugust.com/
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🌈 Parable of the Last Unicorn.🏳️🌈
Blog post with an audio reading of this story. I'll be posting some critical theory analysis presently, starting on Saturday morning-ish.https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/21/the-last-unicorn/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #epistemology #culture #society #consensus #unicorn #parable #amwriting #amreading #amlistening #blog #podcast #history #psychology #technology #instruments #construction #foundation #language #modernism #modernity #perception #power #reality #politics #identity #postmodernism #video
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Kayal and Murugan grinding the grain at the idli bistro in Idli Kadai is reminiscent of the pottery scene in Ghost and about as sexy. 🥵 🔥
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Daylight Savings reminds me of a story..
Newlyweds first dinner. Wife cooks pot roast but cuts off the ends. Why? asks hubby. My mom did that and hers were always good.
Mom visits and hubby asks why cut the ends off the roast? My mom did and they were always good.
Thanksgiving and hubby asks grandma why cut the ends off roasts??
Oh hun, my pan was just small.
I think a lotta what we do is like this..
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And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
[καὶ μετ᾽ οὐ πολλὰς ἡμέρας συναγαγὼν πάντα ὁ νεώτερος υἱὸς ἀπεδήμησεν εἰς χώραν μακρὰν καὶ ἐκεῖ διεσκόρπισεν τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ ζῶν ἀσώτως.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 15: 13, “Parable of the Prodigal Son” (Jesus) [KJV (1611)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/78908/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #parable #debauchery #dissolution #party #ProdigalSon #spendthrift #wastrel #bookofluke #jesus
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And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
[καὶ μετ᾽ οὐ πολλὰς ἡμέρας συναγαγὼν πάντα ὁ νεώτερος υἱὸς ἀπεδήμησεν εἰς χώραν μακρὰν καὶ ἐκεῖ διεσκόρπισεν τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ ζῶν ἀσώτως.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 15: 13, “Parable of the Prodigal Son” (Jesus) [KJV (1611)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/78908/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #parable #debauchery #dissolution #party #ProdigalSon #spendthrift #wastrel #bookofluke #jesus
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And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
[καὶ μετ᾽ οὐ πολλὰς ἡμέρας συναγαγὼν πάντα ὁ νεώτερος υἱὸς ἀπεδήμησεν εἰς χώραν μακρὰν καὶ ἐκεῖ διεσκόρπισεν τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ ζῶν ἀσώτως.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 15: 13, “Parable of the Prodigal Son” (Jesus) [KJV (1611)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/78908/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #parable #debauchery #dissolution #party #ProdigalSon #spendthrift #wastrel #bookofluke #jesus
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And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
[καὶ μετ᾽ οὐ πολλὰς ἡμέρας συναγαγὼν πάντα ὁ νεώτερος υἱὸς ἀπεδήμησεν εἰς χώραν μακρὰν καὶ ἐκεῖ διεσκόρπισεν τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ ζῶν ἀσώτως.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 15: 13, “Parable of the Prodigal Son” (Jesus) [KJV (1611)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/78908/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #parable #debauchery #dissolution #party #ProdigalSon #spendthrift #wastrel #bookofluke #jesus
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Who knows what is good and what is bad?
When an old farmer’s stallion won a prize at a country show, his neighbor called round to congratulate him, but the old farmer said, “Who knows what is good and what is bad?”
The next day some thieves came and stole the valuable animal. When the neighbor came to commiserate with him, the old man replied, “Who knows what is good and what is bad?”
A few days later the spirited stallion escaped from the thieves and joined a herd of wild mares, leading them back to the farm. The neighbor called in to share the farmer’s joy, but the farmer responded, “Who knows what is good and what is bad?”
The following day, while trying to break in one of the mares, the farmer’s son got thrown and fractured his leg. The neighbor called to share the farmer’s sorrow, but the old man’s attitude remained the same as before.
The following week the army passed by forcibly conscripting soldiers for the war, but they did not take the farmer’s son because he couldn’t walk. And the neighbor thought to himself, “Who knows what is good and what is bad?” realizing that the old farmer must be a Taoist sage.
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Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. “Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.
“The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there. I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’
“I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”
[Εἶπεν δὲ καὶ πρός τινας τοὺς πεποιθότας ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτοῖς ὅτι εἰσὶν δίκαιοι καὶ ἐξουθενοῦντας τοὺς λοιποὺς τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην· Ἄνθρωποι δύο ἀνέβησαν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν προσεύξασθαι, ὁ εἷς Φαρισαῖος καὶ ὁ ἕτερος τελώνης.
ὁ Φαρισαῖος σταθεὶς πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ταῦτα προσηύχετο, Ὁ θεός, εὐχαριστῶ σοι ὅτι οὐκ εἰμὶ ὥσπερ οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἅρπαγες, ἄδικοι, μοιχοί, ἢ καὶ ὡς οὗτος ὁ τελώνης· νηστεύω δὶς τοῦ σαββάτου, ἀποδεκατῶ πάντα ὅσα κτῶμαι.
ὁ δὲ τελώνης μακρόθεν ἑστὼς οὐκ ἤθελεν οὐδὲ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐπᾶραι εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, ἀλλ᾽ ἔτυπτεν τὸ στῆθος αὐτοῦ λέγων, Ὁ θεός, ἱλάσθητί μοι τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ.
λέγω ὑμῖν, κατέβη οὗτος δεδικαιωμένος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ παρ᾽ ἐκεῖνον· ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν ταπεινωθήσεται, ὁ δὲ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 18: 9-14, “The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector” [GNT (1992 ed.)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/35493/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #jesus #parable #faithandworks #arrogance #ego #hubris #humility #legalism #pride #repentance #selfimportance #selfrighteousness #sin #sinner #works
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Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. “Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.
“The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there. I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’
“I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”
[Εἶπεν δὲ καὶ πρός τινας τοὺς πεποιθότας ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτοῖς ὅτι εἰσὶν δίκαιοι καὶ ἐξουθενοῦντας τοὺς λοιποὺς τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην· Ἄνθρωποι δύο ἀνέβησαν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν προσεύξασθαι, ὁ εἷς Φαρισαῖος καὶ ὁ ἕτερος τελώνης.
ὁ Φαρισαῖος σταθεὶς πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ταῦτα προσηύχετο, Ὁ θεός, εὐχαριστῶ σοι ὅτι οὐκ εἰμὶ ὥσπερ οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἅρπαγες, ἄδικοι, μοιχοί, ἢ καὶ ὡς οὗτος ὁ τελώνης· νηστεύω δὶς τοῦ σαββάτου, ἀποδεκατῶ πάντα ὅσα κτῶμαι.
ὁ δὲ τελώνης μακρόθεν ἑστὼς οὐκ ἤθελεν οὐδὲ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐπᾶραι εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, ἀλλ᾽ ἔτυπτεν τὸ στῆθος αὐτοῦ λέγων, Ὁ θεός, ἱλάσθητί μοι τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ.
λέγω ὑμῖν, κατέβη οὗτος δεδικαιωμένος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ παρ᾽ ἐκεῖνον· ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν ταπεινωθήσεται, ὁ δὲ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 18: 9-14, “The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector” [GNT (1992 ed.)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/35493/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #jesus #parable #faithandworks #arrogance #ego #hubris #humility #legalism #pride #repentance #selfimportance #selfrighteousness #sin #sinner #works
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Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. “Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.
“The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there. I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’
“I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”
[Εἶπεν δὲ καὶ πρός τινας τοὺς πεποιθότας ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτοῖς ὅτι εἰσὶν δίκαιοι καὶ ἐξουθενοῦντας τοὺς λοιποὺς τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην· Ἄνθρωποι δύο ἀνέβησαν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν προσεύξασθαι, ὁ εἷς Φαρισαῖος καὶ ὁ ἕτερος τελώνης.
ὁ Φαρισαῖος σταθεὶς πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ταῦτα προσηύχετο, Ὁ θεός, εὐχαριστῶ σοι ὅτι οὐκ εἰμὶ ὥσπερ οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἅρπαγες, ἄδικοι, μοιχοί, ἢ καὶ ὡς οὗτος ὁ τελώνης· νηστεύω δὶς τοῦ σαββάτου, ἀποδεκατῶ πάντα ὅσα κτῶμαι.
ὁ δὲ τελώνης μακρόθεν ἑστὼς οὐκ ἤθελεν οὐδὲ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐπᾶραι εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, ἀλλ᾽ ἔτυπτεν τὸ στῆθος αὐτοῦ λέγων, Ὁ θεός, ἱλάσθητί μοι τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ.
λέγω ὑμῖν, κατέβη οὗτος δεδικαιωμένος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ παρ᾽ ἐκεῖνον· ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν ταπεινωθήσεται, ὁ δὲ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 18: 9-14, “The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector” [GNT (1992 ed.)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/35493/
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But the man was anxious to justify himself and said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’
Jesus replied, “A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of brigands; they took all he had, beat him and then made off, leaving him half dead. Now a priest happened to be travelling down the same road, but when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Levite who came to the place saw him, and passed by on the other side.
“But a Samaritan traveller who came upon him was moved with compassion when he saw him. He went up and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. He then lifted him on to his own mount, carried him to the inn and looked after him. Next day, he took out two denarii and handed them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said ‘and on my way back I will make good any extra expense you have.’
“Which of these three, do you think, proved himself a neighbour to the man who fell into the brigands` hands?”
“The one who took pity on him” he replied.
Jesus said to him, “Go, and do the same yourself.”The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 10: 29-37 [JB (1966)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/39770/
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But the man was anxious to justify himself and said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’
Jesus replied, “A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of brigands; they took all he had, beat him and then made off, leaving him half dead. Now a priest happened to be travelling down the same road, but when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Levite who came to the place saw him, and passed by on the other side.
“But a Samaritan traveller who came upon him was moved with compassion when he saw him. He went up and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. He then lifted him on to his own mount, carried him to the inn and looked after him. Next day, he took out two denarii and handed them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said ‘and on my way back I will make good any extra expense you have.’
“Which of these three, do you think, proved himself a neighbour to the man who fell into the brigands` hands?”
“The one who took pity on him” he replied.
Jesus said to him, “Go, and do the same yourself.”The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 10: 29-37 [JB (1966)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/39770/
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But the man was anxious to justify himself and said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’
Jesus replied, “A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of brigands; they took all he had, beat him and then made off, leaving him half dead. Now a priest happened to be travelling down the same road, but when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Levite who came to the place saw him, and passed by on the other side.
“But a Samaritan traveller who came upon him was moved with compassion when he saw him. He went up and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. He then lifted him on to his own mount, carried him to the inn and looked after him. Next day, he took out two denarii and handed them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said ‘and on my way back I will make good any extra expense you have.’
“Which of these three, do you think, proved himself a neighbour to the man who fell into the brigands` hands?”
“The one who took pity on him” he replied.
Jesus said to him, “Go, and do the same yourself.”The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 10: 29-37 [JB (1966)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/39770/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #jesus #parable #compassion #GoodSamaritan #kindness #love #loveyourenemy #loveyourneighbor #mercy #neighbor #pity
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But the man was anxious to justify himself and said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’
Jesus replied, “A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of brigands; they took all he had, beat him and then made off, leaving him half dead. Now a priest happened to be travelling down the same road, but when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Levite who came to the place saw him, and passed by on the other side.
“But a Samaritan traveller who came upon him was moved with compassion when he saw him. He went up and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. He then lifted him on to his own mount, carried him to the inn and looked after him. Next day, he took out two denarii and handed them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said ‘and on my way back I will make good any extra expense you have.’
“Which of these three, do you think, proved himself a neighbour to the man who fell into the brigands` hands?”
“The one who took pity on him” he replied.
Jesus said to him, “Go, and do the same yourself.”The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 10: 29-37 [JB (1966)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/39770/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #jesus #parable #compassion #GoodSamaritan #kindness #love #loveyourenemy #loveyourneighbor #mercy #neighbor #pity
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But the man was anxious to justify himself and said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’
Jesus replied, “A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of brigands; they took all he had, beat him and then made off, leaving him half dead. Now a priest happened to be travelling down the same road, but when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Levite who came to the place saw him, and passed by on the other side.
“But a Samaritan traveller who came upon him was moved with compassion when he saw him. He went up and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. He then lifted him on to his own mount, carried him to the inn and looked after him. Next day, he took out two denarii and handed them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said ‘and on my way back I will make good any extra expense you have.’
“Which of these three, do you think, proved himself a neighbour to the man who fell into the brigands` hands?”
“The one who took pity on him” he replied.
Jesus said to him, “Go, and do the same yourself.”The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 10: 29-37 [JB (1966)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/39770/
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Today's pick: Lazarus and the Rich Man (c. 1035-1040) - Anonymous. #art #Anonymous #Parable
