Mustard Seed and Yeast
The smallest seed that grows into a very large plant.
What is the mustard seed?
These people were viewed as traditionally unclean if not as enemies by Jewish people from Israel
Who were the Samaritans?
“Give me my share of my inheritance now rather than waiting until you die”
what did the youngest son say to his father?
The three Gospels that include the Four Soils parable?
What are Matthew, Mark, and Luke?
This is the main idea behind the parable of Two Sons.
One son said no but obeyed and one son said yes but disobeyed.
Yeast was necessary for this crucial food for people living in the Roman Empire.
What was bread?
A Jewish priest and a Levite/Jewish teacher.
Who didn’t stop to help the severely beaten traveler?
This is the only book of the Bible where the parable is found.
What is Luke?
This represents the Word of God in the Sower.
What are the seeds?
The last person the Landowner sent to the “Evil Tenants” that they killed.
What is his son?
The parable that shows that the Kingdom of God grows and spreads in a mysterious way.
What is the Yeast parable?
Bandages the hurt man’s wounds, takes him to an inn, cares for him overnight, and pays the innkeeper to keep caring for him.
What did the Samaritan do?
“You are always with me, and everything I have is yours.”
What did the father say to the older son when he complained about the younger son’s treatment?
These are the four kinds of soil.
What are the path, rocky, thorny and good soils.
This is the parable where the vineyard owner paid everyone the same regardless of how long they worked.
What is the Workers in the Vineyard parable?
A shared point both Mustard and Yeast parables show about the nature of the Kingdom of God.
What is it starts small and grows big?
Because a corpse is viewed as impure
Because it would be costly to care for him
Because it would be inconvenient
What are reasons why the Priest and teacher might not have stopped?
When he had to take a job feeding pigs and was so hungry he considered eating their food.
When did the younger son realize he had made a mistake and decide to return home?
An impressionistic painter who made over 30 paintings and sketches of the Sower.
Who is Van Gogh?
The two parables where the person sold everything to attain something.
What are the Pearl and the Hidden Treasure?
This is the aspect of the mustard seed parable that shows God’s Kingdom is intended to be inclusive.
What is the birds nesting in its branches?
Jesus shows that in God’s Kingdom this kind of relationship is not defined by ethnicity, religion, or social group.
What is our neighbor?
The people that that the older son and younger son represents.
Who are the Pharisees and society’s outcasts (or sinners)?
This is the soil that could include our struggle to grow our faith due to being too busy or worried with our day to day lives.
What is the thorny soil?
These are the 3 parables that featured “lost and found” stories.
What is the parable of the lost sheep, the lost coin and the prodigal son?