Sentences with phrase «of the wicked tenants»

One is reminded of the treatment of the owner's agents in the parable of the wicked tenants (Mk 12:2 - 5 and parallels).

Then comes the dark parable of the wicked tenants, and a question about taxes to test his citizenship.

H. Waetjen, «Imitations of the Year of Jubilee in the Parables of the Wicked Tenants and the Workers in the Vineyard.»

In its emphasis on the aspect of reversal with the arrival of the rule of God, the «nature parables» stand in the same relationship with that of the parable of the Wicked Tenants.83 The images also testify to Jesus» identification with the peasant culture, with its values of sharing, caring and hard work.

Not exact matches

The disobedient and indifferent Jews are the wicked tenants who do not give a proportionate share of the grapes to the landowner.

This seems to be the point of the parable of the vineyard and its wicked tenants (Mall.