What Does Luke 12:41 Mean?
Then Peter said to him, "Lord, are you speaking this parable to us, or even to all?"
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Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?THE KEY
The hidden question is whether this teaching is placed beside only the inner circle or beside everyone.
THE MEANING
The question is alive whenever you wonder whether a teaching includes you or belongs only to those closest to it. It opens the boundary of the audience; the surrounding answer turns toward what is entrusted and what follows from receiving it.
THE ROOT
παραβολή
parabolē
GROWS FROM
βάλλω
ballō
To throw, cast, or place.
A parable is a comparison placed beside its hearer. Peter’s question asks where this teaching is set: beside only the close circle, or before everyone.
ALSO GROWS
bolē: A throw or cast.
βολή
It keeps the root’s image of something placed or cast before someone.
paraballō: To place beside; to compare.
παραβάλλω
This verb shows the act of setting one thing alongside another, the image behind a parable.
THE PATTERN
What is disclosed or entrusted does not remain sealed with its first hearer; it reaches others and carries a measure of response.
The hidden things belong to the LORD our God, but the uncovered things belong to us and to our children for the ages, that we may do all the words of this instruction.For there is nothing hidden that will not be brought to light, nor has anything become hidden away, but that it come into the open.But the one who did not know, and did what deserves blows, will be beaten with few blows. To everyone to whom much is given, much will be sought from him, and to whom much has been placed beside him, they will ask all the more of him.THE THREAD
But the one who did not know, and did what deserves blows, will be beaten with few blows. To everyone to whom much is given, much will be sought from him, and to whom much has been placed beside him, they will ask all the more of him.Peter asks who the parable addresses; the answer turns toward what each hearer has received and what follows from that trust. The audience question opens into a measure of responsibility.
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