Tag: ancient-zealots

Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Today’s Gospel reading, Mk 4:26-34 offers us two agrarian parables portraying the reign of God, followed by brief commentary on Jesus’ teaching methods with crowds and disciples, respectively. Both parables—literally,  sketches “alongside-thrown” (para-bole) widespread popular expectations about the reign of God—employ a popular Semitic trope: the marvel…