Recommended Readings:

• Donald Hagner, “Matthew’s Parables of the Kingdom (13:1-52),” In The Challenge of 
 Jesus’ Parables, ed. Richard Longenecker (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000), 102-24.
• Jonathan Pennington, “Matthew 13 and the Function of the Parables in the First Gospel” in The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 13 (2009): 12-20.

Articles: (click to view)

• “The Messianic Secret” from Tabletalk Magazine
• “Commentary: Peace on Earth? What Peace?” by The Rev. Traci Blackmon

Sermons: (click to view)

• “The Violence of Nonviolence” by The Rev. Chris Mereschuk

Podcasts: (click to access)

“The Flower in the Desert” (Seventh Sunday after Pentecost), Chapter, Verse, and Season: A Lectionary Podcast from Yale Bible Study

Art: (click to view)

• “The Meal in the House of Matthew” by James Tissot
• “The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins” by William Blake
• “The Parable of the Mote and the Beam” by Ottmar Elliger the Younger

• “The Marriage Feast (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)” by After Sir John Everett Millais
• “The parable of the sower” by Jesus Mafa from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN