I have often blogged before on the St John's Nottingham series of Youtube videos. If I knew about this one previously, I had forgotten it. We have reached the parables in my Historical Jesus course at Duke and it's great to discover this gem. It's a real treat to see Graham Stanton again, very much missed. There is a little of Jimmy Dunn in this too, but it's mainly Stanton:
The parables are mysterious to the original hearers because so many are prophecies of what the future church would be like. My favorites are the hidden treasure and the pearl, speaking of Christ giving up everything to save the OT and NT churches respectively.
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