Gender pairs in Jesus’ teaching
Sara Parks makes some interesting observations about ways in which *Jesus often used both male and female examples in his teaching.
Jesus often taught the same lesson twice, using male- and female-oriented examples:
- the mustard seed and the yeast (Mt 13:31f)
- the ravens and the lilies (Lk 12:22-34)
- the lost sheep and the lost coin (Lk 15)
- the widow and the lepers (Lk 4:25-27)
- the persistent neighbor and the persistent widow (Lk 18)
- the Queen of the South (Lk 11:31) and the men of Nineveh (Lk 11:32)
- the lost sheep and the lost coin (Lk 15:4-10)
- farming and spinning (Mt 6:26-29)
- bread-making and fishing (Mt 7:9f)
In some of these pairs, no people are mentioned at all. …