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| + | *In the parable of the talents, found in all the synoptic Gospels, the servants who are most productive are rewarded, regardless of how much was entrusted to them. | ||
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===Lack of scarcity=== | ===Lack of scarcity=== | ||
*the multiplication of the loaves in Matt 14:13-21 | *the multiplication of the loaves in Matt 14:13-21 | ||
Revision as of 15:18, March 11, 2010
Economic parables are those stories told by Jesus in the New Testament which teach about work, income, the free-market, and self-sufficiency.
Examples
No penalization of wealth
- In the parable of the talents, found in all the synoptic Gospels, the servants who are most productive are rewarded, regardless of how much was entrusted to them.
Lack of scarcity
- the multiplication of the loaves in Matt 14:13-21
- the master's estate in the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32
- an excess of fish found by casting the net on the other side of the boat in John 21:6
Understood by Jesus' followers
In 2 Thess. 3:8-10, Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus worked for their bread rather than expecting charity, and give the self-sufficiency maxim "if any man won't work, he won't eat."