The time of the Savior's public ministry was nearing its
end. In His previous parables, the Lord taught about the preconditions for the
dissemination of God's Kingdom amidst and within people. In His last six
parables, the Lord spoke also about His Kingdom, full of grace, and stressed
the idea of a person’s responsibility before God for disdaining the chance of
salvation, or, even worse, for directly rejecting God's grace. These parables
were told in Jerusalem in the last week of the Savior's life on earth. They
revealed the teaching about the truth, or justice of God, the Second Coming of
Christ and the Last Judgement. The last six parables include the parable about
the wicked husbandmen, the barren fig tree, the wedding dinner, the laborers
who received equal pay, the men waiting for their lord, and the ten virgins.
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