#biblical parable

The Wicked Servant

Artist: Heinrich Jenny (Swiss, (1824-1891)

Date: 19th century

Medium: Oil painting

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

The Parable of the Rich Fool, also known as The Money Changer, is an oil painting on canvas of 1627 by Rembrandt, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Produced early in the artist's career, it depicts the eponymous Biblical parable. The model for the figure is said to have been Rembrandt's father.

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Artist: Pompeo Batoni (Italian, 1708–1787)

Date: 1773

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

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The Parable of the Unworthy Wedding Guest

Artist: Attributed to Jacob Adriaensz Backer (Dutch, 1608-1651)

Date: c. 1644

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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The Blind Leading the Blind

Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Flemish, 1525–1530)

Date: 1568

Medium: Distemper on linen canvas

Collection: Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

Description

The Blind Leading the Blind, Blind, or The Parable of the Blind (Dutch: De parabel der blinden) is a painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1568.

The painting depicts a procession of six blind, disfigured men. They pass along a path bordered by a river on one side and a village with a church on the other. The leader of the group has fallen on his back into a ditch and, because they are all linked by their staffs, seems about to drag his companions down with him. A cowherd stands in the background.

Bruegel based the work on the Biblical parable of the blind leading the blind from Matthew 15:14, in which Christ refers to the Pharisees. Bruegel expands the two blind men in the parable to six; they are well dressed, rather than wearing the peasant clothing that typifies his late work. The first blind man's face is not visible; the second twists his head as he falls, perhaps to avoid landing face-first. The shinguard-clad third man, on his toes with knees bent and face to the sky, shares a staff with the second, by which he is being pulled down. The others have yet to stumble, but the same fate seems implied.

The faces and bodies of the blind men, and background detail including the church, are rendered in exceptionally fine detail. The backward-falling posture of the guide demonstrates Bruegel's mastery of foreshortening.

The Parable Of The Pear Tree

A father wanted to teach his four sons the lesson of not judging something or someone too quickly, and so he called his four sons together and said “I have a task for you. I want you, my eldest son to go out into our fields and take a look at the pear tree and come back and tell me what your evaluation is of its condition.” 

So the eldest went out and saw the pear tree. But it was winter, and…

The Potter And His Wares: The Trials Of The Righteous

It is written (Psalm 11:5), “The LORD test the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.”

Rabbi Jonathan said: “The potter does not try the vessels that have been made imperfectly, because he does not doubt that if he strike them even once, it will break them. But he tries the fair vessels; for however many times he may strike them, they will not be broken. So he…