About two sons

 We know these attitudes from everyday life. Parents’ orders, on the one hand, and willingness or unwillingness, or acting willingness, to comply with them. In such a situation, it is not the one who says yes, but who is really determined to comply with the issued order, packs up and goes to work. In this read story, our sympathy was won by the son who said that he wasn’t going anywhere, but he finally went to work. A large world can be depicted on this family “standard situation”.

How to explain this parable? According to the rabbinical interpretation, the parable could be interpreted as saying: The righteous speak little and do much, and the wicked promise much, and do nothing. But does it really? In life, we ​​often recognize that the first impression is deceiving. Already in the story telling is obvious that in the family can not count on one son. The first is lazy and defiant, the other apparently wants to escape an open conflict, so he prefers to go secretly – taken whole, or from either of his sons, the father can have no joy.

What does Jesus want to tell us by this parable? This parable of everyday life tells to reveal the mystery of the Kingdom of God. In this parable, Jesus reflects what He experienced of the godly of his time. He wants to point out the danger of the Pharisees’ correctness, which speaks of law, but bypasses the requirements of the law such as law, mercy, faith. Even today we can discover such perfect piety when someone says “yes God” but does not do what God asks of him. There is a contradiction between what they say and do.

Jesus evaluates people according to what they do. Even in the other people there is a difference between what they say and what they do. In this case, however, the “no” is raised in a joyful “yes”. The Lord Jesus invites us to convert. We asked the meaning of this parable. It speaks in another language, invites, invites, presents some fear about us who we listen to. We would misunderstand the Lord Jesus if we thought no one could help the first group.

This is not about making a distinction between those who say yes and what they say not to make a clear and distinct difference between them, but it is about overcoming this difference. In this story, Jesus wants to show that the father, meaning God, addresses both sons – my son. In any case, we are also the sons or daughters of our Heavenly Father, and is there a question before us what sons and daughters we are and want to be? Jesus’ hope for us is that today we can go to his vineyard

s