The Copy Book

There are ten posts in The Copy Book assigned to AD 30. To see all our posts in chronological order, go to the Tale of Years.

AD 8 AD 30 AD 33

The Parable of the Talents

From The Authorized Version

Three servants are engaged to invest their master’s money in the markets.

The Woman Taken in Adultery

From The Authorized Version

The Pharisees conspire to put Jesus in a seemingly impossible situation, by inviting him to take sides in the bitter politics of Jew and Roman.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son

From The Authorized Version

A young man abandons the family farm and goes looking for happiness in the pleasures of the city.

The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen

From The Authorized Version

While the owner is away, the men he has hired to tend his vineyard conspire to seize it for themselves.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

From The Authorized Version

A Jewish man is left for dead by bandits, but help comes from a most unexpected quarter.

Passover to Pentecost

By St Bede of Jarrow

St Bede explains how the Exodus and the Ten Commandments are related to Easter and Whitsuntide.

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