16th sunday in ordinary time 2023

Classical

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary - Vermeer

Source:    Wikimedia
Artist:     Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)

Christ in the House of Mary and Martha - Velázquez

Source:    Wikimedia
Artist:     Diego Velázquez (1599–1660)

Christ in the House of Mary and Martha - Adriaenssen

Source:    http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56209
Artist:      Vincent Adriaenssen (1595-1675)

Abraham and the Three Angels at the Oak of Mamre

Source:    http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=32154
Artist:      Unknown - in the Basilica di S. Vitale (Ravenna, Italy)

Abraham and the Three Angels - Tissot

Source:    Wikimedia
Artist:      James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902)

Contemporary

Martha and Mary

Source:    http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48311
Artist:      JESUS MAFA project

Mary and Martha

Source:    http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=46101
Artist:     He, Qi, 2001 

Your wife Sarah will have a son

Source:    Wikimedia
Artist:      Bible Illustrations by Sweet Media - Jim Sweet

Line Art

Picture of Friends

Source:    Wikimedia
Artist:      Unknown

Abraham's Oak

Source:    Wikimedia
Artist:      Richard Newton, D.D (1813-1887)

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Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds, saying:
"The kingdom of heaven may be likened
to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
While everyone was asleep his enemy came
and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.
When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.
The slaves of the householder came to him and said,
'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field?
Where have the weeds come from?'
He answered, 'An enemy has done this.'
His slaves said to him,
'Do you want us to go and pull them up?'
He replied, 'No, if you pull up the weeds
you might uproot the wheat along with them.
Let them grow together until harvest;
then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters,
"First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning;
but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

He proposed another parable to them.
"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed
that a person took and sowed in a field.
It is the smallest of all the seeds,
yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants.
It becomes a large bush,
and the 'birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.'"

He spoke to them another parable.
"The kingdom of heaven is like yeast
that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour
until the whole batch was leavened."

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables.
He spoke to them only in parables,
to fulfill what had been said through the prophet:
I will open my mouth in parables,
I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation
of the world.

Then, dismissing the crowds, he went into the house.
His disciples approached him and said,
"Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field."
He said in reply, "He who sows good seed is the Son of Man,
the field is the world, the good seed the children of the kingdom.
The weeds are the children of the evil one,
and the enemy who sows them is the devil.
The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
Just as weeds are collected and burned up with fire,
so will it be at the end of the age.
The Son of Man will send his angels,
and they will collect out of his kingdom
all who cause others to sin and all evildoers.
They will throw them into the fiery furnace,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine like the sun
in the kingdom of their Father.
Whoever has ears ought to hear."

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