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V. — PARABLES RECORDED IN THE GOSPELS

1. Peculiar to Matthew


(1.) The tares.............................


13:24-30

(2.) The hid treasure................


13:44.

(3.) The pearl of great price...


3:45, 46.

(4.) The drag net...


13:47-50.

(5.) The unmerciful servant


18:23-35.

(6.) The laborers in the vineyard


20:1-16.

(7.) The two sons.


21:28-32.

(8.) Marriage of the king's son


22:1-14.

(9.) The ten virgins


25:1-13.

(10.) The talents...


25:14-30.

(11.) Sheep and goats


.

25:31-46


2. Peculiar to Mark



(1.) the seed growing secretly....... 4.20-29. (2) Watchfulness............ 13:34, 35


3. Peculiar to Luke.



(1.) The two debtors. 7:41-43.


(2.) The good Samaritan. 10:25-37.


(3.) The importunate friend


at mid-night. 11:5-8.


(4.) The rich fool 12:16-21.


(5.) The servants watching 12:35-40.


(6.) The steward 12:42-48.


(7.) Barren fig tree 13:6-9.


(8.) The great supper 14:16-24.


(9.) Building a tower, and a king


going to war. 14:28-33.


(10.) The lost piece of silver1. 5:8-10.


(11.) The prodigal son. 15:11-32.


(12.) The unjust steward. 16:1-13.


(13.) The rich man and Lazarus. 16:19-31.


(14.) The master and servant. 17:7-10.


(15.) The unjust judge and the importunate widow. 18:1-8.

(16.) The Pharisee and publican.18:10-14. (17.) The pounds. 19:12-27.

4. There are no parables,


as a special form of allegory found in John. The word rendered "parable" in John 10:6 is not the word so rendered in the Synoptics. The word which John uses (paroimia) is better translated "allegory." It occurs elsewhere only in John 16:25, 29 and 2 Peter 2:22, where it is rendered "proverb."


5. Common to Matthew and Luke.


(1.) The house on the rock and on the sand.

Matthew 7:24-27

Luke 6:46-49.

(2.) Leaven

13:33, 34;

13:18-21

(3.) The lost sheep

18:12-14;

15:1-10


6. Common to Matthew, Mark, and Luke.


(1.) Candle under a bushel Matthew 15:15; Mark 4:21.; Luke 8:16.


(2.) New cloth and an old garment

9:16..;

2:21.,

5:36.

(3.) New wine in old bottles

9:17.,

2:22.,

5:37, 38.

(4.) The sower

13:1-23.,

4:1-9.,

8:4-15

(5.) The mustard seed

13:31, 32.,

4:30, 34.,

13:18-20

(6.) The vineyard

21:33-46.,

112:1-12,.

20:9-19.

(7.) The fig tree

24:32-35.,

13:28.,

21:29-33.