The Bible In Paintings: Jesus’ Second Redemption Parable: ✝️ THE LOST COIN ✝️

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings
~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~

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֎ Featuring 20 Paintings, 1 Photograph,
1 Statue and 2 Windows ֎

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Chapter 15

“Suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

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DOMENICO FETTI
"The Parable of the Lost Coin"

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JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS
"The Lost Piece of Silver"

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JAMES TISSOT
"The Lost Drachma"

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RICK KOESTLER
"Parable of the Lost Coin"

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“And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, I tell you, THERE IS REJOICING IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ANGELS OF GOD OVER ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS.”

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LISA KONKOL
"The Found Coin"

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EUGENE BURNAND

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JAN LUYKEN
"The Woman Shares Her Joy with Her Neighbors"

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JORGE COCCO SANTÁNGELO
"The Lost Coin"

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HAROLD COPPING
"The Silver Coin: Lost and Found"

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GODEFRIDUS SCHALCKEN
"Parable of the Lost Piece of Silver"

To be continued, with Jesus’
Third Redemption Parable:
THE LOST SON

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[Red Badger]

“Suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

Usually it's buried deep in he humongous purse full of old receipts and gum wrappers..................

[M_Continuum]

That’s my wife’s bag.

[Red Badger]

😉👍............................

[Hebrews 11:6]

Had a coworker who went to her doctor with back pain. After examining her he examined her purse and discovered it weighed twenty-five pounds. Once she lightened it, problem solved.

[nicollo]

She found it after giving up, and instead went looking for the keys, which were under the mail, which reminded here that her checkbook was on the dining room table, which needed sorting, and there it was under the bowl by the very candle she had been using to look for it everywhere else.

Well, that’s how it works in our house, anyway.

And, yes, we rejoice when a sinner repents!

[Ezekiel]

Had a coworker who went to her doctor with back pain. After examining her he examined her purse and discovered it weighed twenty-five pounds. Once she lightened it, problem solved.

That's certainly an effective way to lighten a purse. Talk about an immediate healing! It's the simple meaning.

[Red Badger]

My mother’s purse was HUMONGOUS! She carried everything in it! even a .380......................

[Red Badger]

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ...........Matthew 11:28-29 King James Version

[Hebrews 11:6]

Yes, there is that double-meaning. Good catch.

[left that other site]

Good Morning, Dan. :-)

[Hebrews 11:6]

Afraid we’ve gone down a rabbit-hole here. Still, when she found the coin, Jesus gave her rest.

[Red Badger]

It’s an allegory.

When you remove everything that’s in the way of your objective, you will find what you are looking for....................

[Hebrews 11:6]

I had been born again two weeks previously, sitting next to the young lady who would become my wife. Cheryl was a mature, faith-filled Christian already.

Our second date was a Sunday afternoon in a park. When we returned to the car I noticed that my expensive pen was no longer in my pocket!

Cheryl just said, “Wait here.” Off she went into that large park, and in five minutes she came back with two things: my pen, and a blessed demonstration of the power of faith.

She still manifests it.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Mary-Lou!

[Red Badger]

It was lost, but now is found!.......................

[etabeta]

Very nice illustrations, paintings and stunning “fenster”.
#1 by Fetti, a solid painter from the Baroque period. He was known for small representations of biblical parables set in everyday life. I love his painting of the Sleeping Girl, very detailed and has a soft brush work.
#4 Tissot
#19 by Burnard, a very talented and respected Swiss painter. We have encountered him last year in the painting of Peter and John rushing to the sepulcher the morning of the Resurrection. In that highly expressive work we can see the influence of Jean-François Millet, famous for his paintings illustrating rural life.
#21 Second encounter with the sacro-cubism of Santangelo.

[Ezekiel]

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

That reminds me of all the accusations hurled at Jesus for healing on the Sabbath, of his doing good "works" on that particular day.

It's not any work at all if it's love. No work at all, such that ideally more "work" could get done on the Sabbath than on all of the other days combined, basically overriding the entire, established business-as-usual model.

Carpe Diem! There goes the neighborhood!

(Abraham rejoiced to sees his day: and he saw it, and was glad.)

Redemption parable: no deposit, no return

People will search high and low for a lost car key, house key, phone, the remote ... ("Now where did I leave that?"). In fact, how much wealth ends up deposited in a couch over time, after so much sitting?

Luke 5
23 Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
24 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.
27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.

It's a weird little world out there. 😉

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and good Wednesday to the many philosophers who attend today.

Fine choices;
#4 Tissot
#21 Santangelo
#23 Copping

Thank You Dan!