The Parable of the
Lost Coin
is found in Luke 15.8-10.
Or what woman, having ten drachmas, if she would lose one
drachma,
does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek
resolutely until she finds?
Our
previous study was about a man that owned 100 sheep, not a poor shepherd. This
parable is about a woman who has ten drachmas (silver coins) – she is by no means a marginal, outcast, or
poor woman. She’s not only relatively well-off, she has a house. Luke 15
confirms what we know from other sources: women
in Judea have access to their own funds – they are hardly the poorest of the
poor. All four Gospels, in
various ways, describe interactions Yeshua,
the Jewish Jesus, had with women. So, a parable about a woman would have
appealed to his female followers. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/5d167f8aef1f/the-parable-of-the-lost-coin
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