Year A
Matthew 25:14-30
The first thing to stress about this parable is that it isn’t about money.
It’s the second in a set of three parables, and while Jesus talks about money, this parable is no more about literal money than the one before is about literal oil or the one after about literal sheep and goats. The money here is a part of a larger metaphor.
The question then becomes what those talenta represent. Talenta were...
