![]() ![]() This phase of his ministry ends with the feeding of the five thousand. Jesus’ ministry begins in Galilee with his baptism and his preaching of the Kingdom of God. p.2.Ĭapon sees Jesus’ ministry as being divided into three parts: Kingdom, Grace, and Judgment. Capon sets out his goal for his work which is to provide us a fresh, adventurous look at the parabolic words and acts of Jesus in the larger light of their entire gospel and biblical context. He was practically an ambulatory parable in and of himself: he cursed fig trees, walked on water, planted coins in fishes’ mouthes, and sailed up into a cloud. ![]() This Tuesday we will be reading through the Parable of the Sower in Matthew 13 and chapters 5-6 of our book.Ĭapon begins his introduction with the observation that: Jesus not only spoke in parables he thought in parables, acted in parables, and regularly insisted that what he was proclaiming could not be set forth in any way other than in parables. Capon (1925-2013) was an Episcopal priest and prolific writer. Capon’s book Kingdom, Grace, Judgment – The Parables of Jesus. I am excited about our beginning a study of Jesus’s parables using Rev. ![]() Ponder These Things: Praying with Icons of the Virgin – Abp.Bad Girls of the Bible – Liz Curtis Higgs. ![]()
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