The reasons for the story

After Luke 19:11-27

He told a story, a parable,

and for two reasons, it says

plainly, stated explicitly,

unusually, as if the reasons

were part of the story,

the parable

Because he was near to Jerusalem

Because they believed the kingdom

   was imminent

The story, overall, was arcing

to this point, events converging,

timings coinciding, and as

they near the city a sense

of crisis, of the climax arriving,

soon,

ready to burst open upon the world.

And it was, but it wasn’t,

it wasn’t the climax

they expected.

So he told a story instead,

a parable.

Photograph by Clint McCoy via Unsplash. Used with permission.