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In the parables Jesus tells people what the kingdom of God is like; in the miracles he shows people the kingdom of God among them - Mark Link
Outline what is revealed about the kingdom of God in one parable and one miracle you have studied.
- The Good Samaritan (Parable):
This is the story of how a Samaritan traveller cares for a Jewish man whom he finds unconscious by the roadside. The injured man has been viciously attacked, robbed and left for dead. The Samaritan tends to his wounds and pays for him to be nursed back to health. The Samaritans were a people who lived in Samaria, the land between Judaea in the south of Palestine and Galilee in the north. Jews travelling between Judaea and Galilee would usually go across the easy bank of the river Jordan to avoid contact with the Samaritans. Samaritans were descended from Jews who had married foreigners and there had been a quarrel between pure Jews and Samaritans for centuries. The Samaritans built their own temple and had their own version of the Tenakh. By the time of Jesus, most Jews despised the Samaritans and had nothing to do with them. Jesus shocked his Jewish listeners by making a Samaritan the hero of the story, but he did s to make an important point about the kingdom of God. There is no place for racial or religious hatred in God's kingdom. The neightbour whom God requires each person to love is anyone in need. God invites everyone to share in the kingdom of God on earth and does not discriminate anyone. He is loving and caring of all people.
- Jesus heals a leper (Miracle):
In Luke 5:12-14 Jesus not only healed a man afflicted by leprosy but actually touched him. Lepers were social outcasts who were ordered to keep apart from other people because their disease was so contagious. Jesus did something that no one else would have dared to do. He showed that while people may have rejected this man because of his illness, God had not. Jesus' actions revealed the love of God reaching out to and embracing people were were abandoned and suffering. Jesus wanted those who were sick to know that God loves and cares for him. Also, Jesus made it known that his ability to perform miracles came directly from God and that these miracles were a sign that the kingdom of God was present and at work in the world.
Outline what is revealed about the kingdom of God in one parable and one miracle you have studied.
- The Good Samaritan (Parable):
This is the story of how a Samaritan traveller cares for a Jewish man whom he finds unconscious by the roadside. The injured man has been viciously attacked, robbed and left for dead. The Samaritan tends to his wounds and pays for him to be nursed back to health. The Samaritans were a people who lived in Samaria, the land between Judaea in the south of Palestine and Galilee in the north. Jews travelling between Judaea and Galilee would usually go across the easy bank of the river Jordan to avoid contact with the Samaritans. Samaritans were descended from Jews who had married foreigners and there had been a quarrel between pure Jews and Samaritans for centuries. The Samaritans built their own temple and had their own version of the Tenakh. By the time of Jesus, most Jews despised the Samaritans and had nothing to do with them. Jesus shocked his Jewish listeners by making a Samaritan the hero of the story, but he did s to make an important point about the kingdom of God. There is no place for racial or religious hatred in God's kingdom. The neightbour whom God requires each person to love is anyone in need. God invites everyone to share in the kingdom of God on earth and does not discriminate anyone. He is loving and caring of all people.
- Jesus heals a leper (Miracle):
In Luke 5:12-14 Jesus not only healed a man afflicted by leprosy but actually touched him. Lepers were social outcasts who were ordered to keep apart from other people because their disease was so contagious. Jesus did something that no one else would have dared to do. He showed that while people may have rejected this man because of his illness, God had not. Jesus' actions revealed the love of God reaching out to and embracing people were were abandoned and suffering. Jesus wanted those who were sick to know that God loves and cares for him. Also, Jesus made it known that his ability to perform miracles came directly from God and that these miracles were a sign that the kingdom of God was present and at work in the world.
