Translations and paraphrases
| Bible Gateway | This link takes you to the Good News Translation but you can easily select others within the site. |
| The parable of the unjust economic system by Alison Sampson. (Hosted on LaughingBird.net) | This is the version of the parable that first attracted my interest in whether the conventional understanding of this parable is the correct one. I was skeptical at first but have become more and more convinced over time. |
| My own | Heavily influenced by Alison’s story, but I wanted to push it a little further with a non-Biblical ending. |
| The Parable of the Talents: Retold by Sajjeev Antony | Another retelling from someone who couldn’t believe the story was told by Jesus in its current form. |
Videos retelling story with a twist
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Modern re-telling aimed at children but brings out some of the worrying features of the story as it is conventionally told. Would Jesus really have presented stock market speculation as a vision of how we should create wealth? Would he really have represented God as a rather self-satisfied business man modelled on Alan Sugar? |
| Interesting video from Symon Hill recounting his experiences of telling this story to people who have never heard it before and who generally sympathise with the third servant. | |
| Imaginative telling with candles. |
Videos retelling story directly.
| Straightforward filming of Jesus telling the parable from the Authorised version. Doesn’t really add anything to the basic story. |
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