The Parable of the Hidden Treasure ( left ) paired with the Parable of the Pearl ( right ) on a stained glass window in Scots ' Church, Melbourne.

The brief Parable of the Pearl is as follows:

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The allegory describes the tale, similar to the Parable of the Pearl in the Gospel of Matthew, of a pearl merchant who is selling a pearl at a great price ( note — this text is not to be confused with the Mormon scripture The Pearl of Great Price ).

Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not record in the early blues era, but his life is well documented thanks to his autobiography, I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, narrated to Glen Alyn, which was published posthumously, and also a short 1971 documentary by Les Blank, A Well Spent Life.

Bach's Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, while mainly based on the Parable of the Ten Virgins, also uses words and imagery from Song of Songs.

The Allegory of the Cave — also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato's Cave, or the Parable of the Cave — is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate " our nature in its education and want of education " ( 514a ).

Luke also contains multiple unique miracles and parables ( e. g. " The Parable of the Good Samaritan ").

This is commonly used in the expression " to separate the wheat from the chaff " from Matthew 3., where it means to separate things of value from things of no value ; compare also the " Parable of the Tares ", which refers to a mixture of wheat and tares ( a kind of weed ).

The New Testament Parable of the Tares, which speaks of the difficulty of distinguishing wheat from weeds before harvest time, has also been invoked in support of religious toleration.

The use of the term " outer darkness " is in Jesus ' Parable of the wedding feast ( also known as the parable of the marriage of the king's son ).

The Parable of the Prodigal Son is also a recurring theme in the works of Rainer Maria Rilke, who interpreted the parable in a different way to the conventional reading.

It is also not the plant described as ζιζάνια ( zizania ) in the Parable of the Tares in the Bible, which is thought to be Lolium temulentum.

Doubt: A Parable, is featured in The Fourth Wall, a book of photographs by Amy Arbus in which Shanley also wrote the foreword.

The Parable of the talents or minas, ( also known as the Parable of Talents and / or The Parable of the Pounds ), is one of the well known parables of Jesus.

The Parable of the rich man and Lazarus ( also called the Dives and Lazarus or Lazarus and Dives ) is a well known parable of Jesus appearing in the Gospel of Luke.

The theme of the Parable of the Talents () is also developed in the hymns of this day.

The Parable of the Ten Virgins, also known as the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, is one of the well known parables of Jesus.

The Parable of the Unjust Judge ( also known as the Parable of the Importunate Widow ), is one of the parables of Jesus which appears in only one of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament.

He also played with Parable, Good Grief, and Chuck McCleod's Band.

Also called tares ( even though there is no firm evidence that this is the same as the plant given that name in English language translations of the Bible ( as in the " Parable of the Tares ")-vetches are another candidate ), these plants are native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa, but are widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere.

A more recent ink on paper version appeared as a book called Flight of the Hummingbird-A Parable for the Environment.

* Holy and Great Tuesday — the Parable of the Ten Virgins ()

Major religious works include the triptychs in oil, The Feeding of the Five Thousand ( 1929 ), for the chapel in Llandaff House, a home for destitute women at Penarth, Wales, and The Parable of the Great Supper ( 1934 ) for St. George's Chapel, Waddon.

* The Parable of the Great Supper ; triptych, St. George's chapel, Waddon

In 1995 Allison Cook of the Houston Press described Kim Sơn as the most prominent " success story as the Great Houston Restaurant Parable.

* Great and Holy Tuesday: Parable of the Ten Virgins ( 5 days )

Simple accounting is mentioned in the Christian Bible ( New Testament ) in the Book of Matthew, in the Parable of the Talents.

Ludwig Wittgenstein's " word games " closely parallel the warning that intellectual speculation is a red herring to understanding, as found in the Buddhist Parable of the Poison Arrow.

The road between Jerusalem and Jericho is the setting for the Parable of the Good Samaritan

This parable is generally interpreted as illustrating the great value of the Kingdom of Heaven ( pearls at that time had a greater value than they do today ), and thus has a similar theme to the Parable of the Hidden Treasure.

The antagonism between Samaritans and Jews is important in understanding the Christian Bible's stories of " Parable of the Good Samaritan " and the " Samaritan woman at the well ".

The reading on the Sunday which concludes this week is the Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee ().

The theme of this week is the Parable of the Prodigal Son ().

Good Samaritan laws take their name from a parable found in the Bible, attributed to Jesus, commonly referred to as the Parable of the Good Samaritan which is contained in Luke 10: 25-37.

* The Parable of the Old Men and the Young: World War I poem by Wilfred Owen in which the sacrifice of the young men killed in the war is compared to the binding of Isaac, with the difference that in the poem, Abraham refuses to substitute the ram and proceeds to kill Isaac.

It is divided into eight sections: The Edifice, Fooling Around, The Process, Judgment, A Parable, Digression, The Search, and The Mark.

There is no firm evidence that this is the same as the " tare " in some English translations of the Bible ( as in the " Parable of the Tares ") – ryegrass ( Lolium ) is another candidate.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son is perhaps the best known instance of such teaching and practice of forgiveness.

The name of the organization is based on the New Testament Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which Jesus uses a parable to teach people the second great commandment-how to " love thy neighbour as thyself ".

The Maxim ( philosophy ) | maxim of the " Golden Rule " is exemplified in many Christian stories, such as the Parable of the Good Samaritan, which are unadorned replications of the Jew ish Torah: " Love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

Finally, a fair amount of controversy between communist and anti-communist Christians is focused on the many economic parables told by Jesus – including the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25: 14 – 30 ( a " talent " was a form of money ).

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young is a poem by Wilfred Owen which compares the ascent of Abraham to Mount Moriah and his near-sacrifice of Isaac there with the start of World War I.

" The Parable of the Old Man and the Young " is written loosely in iambic pentameter.