*3*rd Parable... AKA even my books betray me...

I didn't get this 22 thing at first, why the 22 God keeps on trying to bring to my mind... but as I studied more, it came to me...(parts of an e-mail I had composed on 4/22/2009 relating to perhaps Psalm 22 as part of my prophecies-fulfilled study)

I will proceed to quote (some parts) from pages 260-261 of the DeSilva text:

These suggestions about Matthew's intepretation and use of the parable of the wicked tenants may be confirmed by examining the *3*rd-parable in the series, the parable of the wedding banquet...

CON: ??? Say what? Didn't I just quote that 2 days ago..?

*1. Matthew sets the banquet at a more specific occassion--the marriage feast of the king's son,

CON: "You spelled Prince Caspian wrong..." I was just talking about this sister on 05/22/2009 "as well"...

*2. In Matthew the messengers ae not only scorned but also seized, beaten and killed. There is thus a heightening of hostility between the messengers (perhaps not indeed the Hebrew prophets but the Jewish Christian missionaries to other Jews)

CON: When I wrote my paper on 04/22/2009 and needed my friend Prophet-N to hand it in for me, I saved the file as something like "or K will kill all the prophets man..." to indicate it was urgent he should get the hardcopy to my prof (sorry if I seemed insensitived)

*3. (Interestingly enough, like the "textual variant" the prof talked about last week in class) the number and point DeSilva is supposed to be making here is missing from the book... say what??? *3* is missing? OK...)

*4. Matthew alone has the seocnd scene of the parable... ... ; notice the details in Mt 22:10 that the slaves gathered into the wedding hall are "both the good and the bad").

CON: The last person I asked to pray about the *3* ISSUE/PROBLEM told me a story about an "identity crisis"... "Am I good person pretending to be bad or a bad person pretending to be good?"

*5. The placement of this parable together with the parable of the wicked tenants is also a redactional choice. The juxtaposition of these two parables affects the reading of the second.

CON: I had a dream this morning that helps me tie in the connection to the e-mail I sent on 03/28/2009 and 04/23/2009... It's ironic... I used to have some that require no intepretation, now that I have one that is very vague and can intepret it, I wonder what is the point if what AJ told me on 05/10/2009 is true...

[DeSilva, David A., An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods, & Ministry Formation. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2004.]