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Category: Parables of Jesus
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The Merchant’s Quest and the Consummation of the Promise-Plan: A Critical Realist Analysis of the Parable of the Pearl of Great Value (Matthew 13:45–46)
This study reads the Pearl of Great Value alongside the Hidden Treasure. It examines the merchant’s deliberate search, recognition of surpassing worth, and decisive purchase, relating the parable to biblical wisdom, kingdom seeking, grace, and discipleship.
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Mark 4: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Mark 4 brings together the sower, lamp, growing seed, mustard seed, and calming of the sea. This commentary examines hearing and fruitfulness, the hidden growth of God’s kingdom, and Jesus’ authority over chaos within the promise-plan.
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The Father’s Table: Covenantal Warfare, Contagious Grace, and the Background of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15
This study reads Luke 15 as Jesus’ defense of welcoming sinners to the table. It explores the father’s restoring love for both sons, the parable’s honor-and-shame setting, and the relationship between grace, covenantal belonging, and Israel’s continuing calling.
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Hidden Kingdom Treasure: Parabolic Wisdom, the Promise-Plan of God, and the Radical Reorientation of Discipleship in Matthew 13:44
This study reads Matthew 13:44 as a parable of the kingdom’s surpassing worth. It examines how unexpected discovery, joy, and decisive action reorder discipleship, placing the hidden treasure within Matthew’s teaching and the unfolding promise-plan of God.
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Corrupting the Corruption: The Parable of the Leaven (Matthew 13:33), Subversive Kingdom Infiltration, and the Canonical Architecture of Promise-Plan Theology
This study reads Matthew 13:33 as a provocative image of hidden kingdom transformation. Engaging Thomas Long and promise-plan theology, it explores the woman’s action, leaven’s symbolism, banquet abundance, and patient, non-coercive witness.
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The Mustard Seed and the World-Field: Redactional Theology, Inaugurated Eschatology, and Canonical Architecture in Matthew 13:31–32
Matthew’s mustard seed is read beside the world-field and yeast, linking modest beginnings, inaugurated reign, and patient, non-coercive kingdom witness.
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From the Sower to the Soils: Pedagogical Discernment, Promise-Plan Theology, and the Mechanics of Hearing in Matthew 13:1–23
Matthew’s sower discourse is compared with Mark’s, emphasizing hearing, understanding, moral discernment, and varying measures of fruitfulness.
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Wheat, Weeds, and the Ambiguity of Inaugurated Eschatology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Ethical Analysis of Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43
The parable of wheat and weeds frames patient kingdom witness in a mixed world, reserving the final separation for God’s judgment.
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The Threshold of the Inbreaking Reign
The essay interprets Mark 13:32–37 as a summons to faithful work and watchfulness during the interval before the master’s return. It relates the parable’s four night watches to Mark’s passion narrative and reads its urgency within the inaugurated…
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The Apocalyptic Mansion and the School of Wisdom
The study reads Matthew’s parables as a school of discipleship in which gracious instruction and urgent judgment warnings work together. Drawing on Thomas G. Long’s architectural image, it argues that the Gospel’s difficult language calls readers to wise,…