Parable of the talents or minas Parable of the talents or minas The Parable of the Talents (also the Parable of the Minas) is one of the parables of Jesus, which appears in two of the synoptic, canonical gospels of the New Testament: Although the basic story in each of these parables is essentially the same, the differences between the parables as they appear in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Gospel of Luke are sufficient to indicate that the parables are not derived from the same source. In Matthew, the opening words link the parable to the preceding Parable of the Ten Virgins, which
The Good Samaritan Window, Chartres Cathedral twenty-four - depict the Story of Creation. These are the themes of the planes depicting the story of the Good Samaritan: 1 - Signature panel (a shoemaker cutting leather) 2 - Signature panel (shoemakers making cord soles) 3 - Signature panel (donation of the window) 4 - Christ telling the parable to a couple of Pharisees 5 - The pilgrim leaving Jerusalem 6 - A bandit prepares to attack the pilgrim 7 - The pilgrim is beaten, robbed and stripped 8 - A Priest and a Levite see the injured man but walk on past 9 - A Samaritan binds