The "defects" of Jesus (part 4)
(4) Jesus did not know how to do the financial economy.Jesus came to proclaim the Kingdom of God near humans, near their lives. Yet when Jesus introduced the Kingdom of God to His disciples and those who listen to Him, He took parables about the Kingdom of God like the owner of the vineyard do to their workers hired in one day (cf. Mt 20,1-16).
From daybreak the employer hired workers. Then to the 3rd hour, then to the 6th hour, then to the 11th hour; each time He went to hire more workers (the 11th hour in the parlance of the Jews that time, it's the time that near the evening)
That evening, the landowner, the image of Jesus, told the manager to call the workers and pay for each one the same amount. Those who did work many hours in the day showed their upset because they see the boss did not know anything about economics, finance even, but in addition, the boss no matter how well to calculate and righteousness in common.
And then Jesus said,
"Behold you, I am not cheating you. You did not agree with me that a denarius? ... Or because I am generous, you stab of jealousy? What is the last will be first, and the first will be last? ..." (Mt. 20, 13-16).
---> Did Jesus not know how to make the financial economy really?
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The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
1 “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.
“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
That is the Words of God!
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That is why Jesus said,
25 "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do."
27 "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." (Matthew 11, 25-27)
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