Parable of the Great Banquet fed.</poem> The topic was the prescribed reading for the Second Sunday after Trinity and Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. For the first occasion Bach composed cantatas "Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76" in 1723 and "Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2" in 1724. For the second occasion he wrote Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180 in 1724. Parable of the Great Banquet The Parable of the Great Banquet or the Wedding Feast or the Marriage of the King's Son is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew and Luke . It
Parable of the Good Samaritan Samaritan laws encourage those who choose to serve and tend to others who are injured or ill. This parable was one of the most popular in medieval art. The allegorical interpretation was often illustrated, with Christ as the Good Samaritan. Accompanying angels were sometimes also shown. In some Orthodox icons of the parable, the identification of the Good Samaritan as Christ is made explicit with a halo bearing a cross. The numerous later artistic depictions of the parable include those of Rembrandt, Jan Wijnants, Vincent van Gogh, Aimé Morot, Domenico Fetti, Johann Carl Loth, George Frederic Watts, and Giacomo Conti.