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The Bible In Paintings: ✨JESUS' PARABLE OF WHEAT AND WEEDS✨

Posted on 12/29/2022 6:28:28 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6



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






JESUS' PARABLE
OF WHEAT
AND WEEDS




֎ Featuring 25 Paintings and 3 Windows ֎

M A T T H E W
CHAPTER 13

Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.

“The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’

“ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.

“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

“ ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’ ”




1
GERARD DE JODE
"The Parable of the Tares"




2
ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT
"Parable of the Wheat and the Tares"




3
JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS
"The Enemy Sowing Tares"




4
DOMENICO FETTI
"Parable of the Sower of Tares"




5
DOMENICO FETTI
"Parable of the Sower of Tares"




6
LUCAS GASSEL
"The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares"




7
FELICIEN ROPS
"Satan Sowing Tares"




8
CORNELIS MASSYS
"A Mountainous River Landscape with
the Parable of the Sowing of the Tares
"




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12
JAN LUYKEN
"Parable of the Weeds"




13
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Source




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Source




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21
JAMES TISSOT
"The Enemy Who Sows"




22
PIETER BALTEN
"Landscape with Satan Sowing Tares"




23
CRISPIJN DE PASSE The Elder
Source




24
JORGE COCCO SANTANGELO
"The Wheat and the Tares"




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26
JACOPO BASSANO
"The Parable of the Tares"




27
EUGÈNE BURNAND
Source




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New International Version ©1984





TOPICS: Apologetics; General Discusssion; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: art; bible; paintings
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Hello Dan, and greetings to each of you.

A wonderful life lesson from the Word of God, well portrayed in these choices of art.

#25 (artist unknown)
#27 Burnand

Thank You Dan.


21 posted on 12/29/2022 11:02:02 AM PST by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: InkStone

Jesus does all things well.

Happy New Year, Leon!


22 posted on 12/29/2022 11:08:09 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

#27 is best in my view.


23 posted on 12/29/2022 11:11:39 AM PST by gitmo
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To: Hebrews 11:6

#7 by Rops (never heard of him before this) is very thought provoking.

I love this parable, probably because it is so accessible (not as murky as some) and so insightful about life here on this mortal coil.


24 posted on 12/29/2022 11:15:26 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Sadly, No. 7 by Rops is all too real in today’s world. (Don’t look too closely at the “tare” Satan is spreading over Paris.)

Sadly, Rops was celebrating and not warning against Satan. He did much of that evil sowing himself — pornographic art and blasphemous, deliberately shocking nude and sexual depictions of religious scenes, as well as practicing it himself. Don’t look into him if you don’t want to be disgusted. (Satanism was trendy among certain bohemian types in fin de siecle Paris.) The dude was a degenerate, so we can sum up the painting here as, takes one to know one.

Still, God teaches us through evil. Satan today sows sin through our popular and political culture and the technologies that advance it. Jesus’ parable in today’s world is heartbreaking and so very real. Those who seek him must do so amidst the weeds, literally.


25 posted on 12/29/2022 11:15:30 AM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: Hebrews 11:6

“Jesus does all things well.”
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Indeed He does.

Happy New Year Dan. For you and your household, may 2023 be a year of blessings, and drawing ever nearer to our God of grace.


26 posted on 12/29/2022 11:49:26 AM PST by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: gitmo

An apocalyptic view of the end-times harvest.


27 posted on 12/29/2022 11:51:42 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

It is possibly occurring today.


28 posted on 12/29/2022 12:00:44 PM PST by gitmo
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To: nicollo; Scott from the Left Coast
Even a reprobate like Rops can produce the occasional helpful work, despite not wishing to. I am reminded of Caiaphas' assertion that it was better for Israel if one man died for them.

If I publish this again, I will consult the Spirit again whether to include this. He and I never want the art to detract or distract from the Word.

29 posted on 12/29/2022 12:03:36 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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To: gitmo

Hubba-hubba! Let’s go!


30 posted on 12/29/2022 12:04:47 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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To: InkStone
drawing ever nearer to our God of grace

The personal verse my first pastor gave me was Phillipians 1:6: "...being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Your lovely hope for me is the hope for all believers.

31 posted on 12/29/2022 12:55:39 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

The personal verse my first pastor gave me was Phillipians 1:6: “...being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
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Great verse of encouragement Dan; Amen and Amen.


32 posted on 12/29/2022 3:04:52 PM PST by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

I know we are not be threshed yet, but some days it feels like it...

Good evening Dan.
#14 is very dark and very true to the subject
#24 I usually do not like modern art, but this painting also speaks truth to Scripture
#25 is just a good painting

thank you for posting these
I really look forward to this thread


33 posted on 12/29/2022 6:07:31 PM PST by SisterK (the final variant is communism)
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To: SisterK

Better, K, thank the good Lord for these threads. They were entirely His idea, and He is responsible for every element you find rewarding.


34 posted on 12/29/2022 6:11:51 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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