Sentences with phrase «at a harvest feast»

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His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

This Feast of Booths, or Feast of Tabernacles, as it came to be called, took place at harvest - time.

The Feast of Tabernacles came at the best season of the year, in autumn, at harvest time.

The Feast of Tabernacles, though it came at harvest time, was a celebration of God's guidance of his people in the wilderness.

She'll be cooking up a harvest dinner with the best of the season's produce from local markets at this five course vegetarian feast.

[O] ur harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a more special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruit of our labors; they four in one day killed as much fowl, as with a little help beside, served the company almost a week, at which time amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest King Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain, and others.

For example, at EastFeast, a collaborative project of 16 schools in East Anglia, pupils participate in a schoolwide vegetable - growing project that culminates in a harvest and a feast the school cooks for the local community.