I am pleased to know that Parable and Paradox is finding a wide readership, and I know that a number of readers hope to use the book as a resource in worship and preaching. To that end I thought it might be helpful to provide a full Biblical Index. For all the sonnets on specific sayings of Jesus, I provide the text of the saying directly before the sonnet in the book itself, but there are of course many wider Biblical references and people preparing to preach or pray from a particular text may wish to look it up here and see if there is a poem that might help them.
Those wishing to know more about the book and my hopes and purpose in writing it, might like to read the in-depth interview about it conducted by Lancia Smith Here
Here is the index:
Parable and Paradox: A Biblical Index
Genesis: 1:1 -2:3 Seven Whole Days pp: 79-82
18:1-16 Abraham and Sarah at Mamre p: 22
32:22-32 Jacob Wrestles with the Angel p:23
Exodus 3:13-15 Before Abraham Was I Am p: 55
Matthew 4:17 Repent p: 29
4:30-32 The Lest of All Seeds p: 34
5:3-12 Beatitudes p: 30
5:29-30 Better To Enter Life Maimed p: 41
5:42 As If p: 31
6:9-13 Seven Sonnets on the Lord’s Prayer pp: 65-71
6:24 The Mammon of Unrighteousness p: 43
10:34-35 A Sword p: 40
10:40 Whoever Welcomes p: 37
11:15 ‘He Who Has Ears To Hear p: 28
13:3-9 The Sower p: 48
13:31-32 The Least of All Seeds p: 34
13:33 Like Unto Leaven p: 32
15:21-28 It’s Not Fair! p: 35
18:5 Whoever Welcomes p: 37
18:8-9 Better To Enter Life Maimed p: 41
18:23-35 Forgive as We Forgive p: 69
19:30 First And Last p: 72
24:29-31 World’s End p: 73
25:40 A sonnet for the Unseen p: 11
25:41 Refusal p: 74
26:52 By The Sword 49
28:20 I Will Be with You p: 78
Mark 1:15 Repent p: 29
4:1-9 The Sower p: 48
4:24 Good Measure p: 47
7:24-30 It’s Not Fair! P: 35
7:31-37 Be Opened p: 36
8:4-8 The Sower p: 48
8:31-33 Get Thee Behind Me Satan p: 38
9:36-37 Whoever Welcomes p: 37
9:43 Better To Enter Life Maimed p: 41
10:21 Sell All You Have p: 42
10:31 First and Last p: 72
12:28-31 Five Dialogues on the Two Great Commandments pp: 50-54
13:24-29 World’s End p: 73
Luke 2:21 The Naming of Jesus p: 27
6:20-23 Beatitudes p: 30
6:29-30 As If p: 31
6:37 Imagine p: 46
6:38 Good Measure p: 47
9:48 Whoever Welcomes p: 37
10:27 Five Dialogues on the Two Great Commandments pp: 50-54
10:25-37 The Good Samaritan p: 44
11:2-4 Seven Sonnets on the Lord’s Prayer pp 65-71
11:33 Beatitudes p: 30
12:51-53 A Sword p: 40
13:18-19 The Least Of All Seeds p: 34
13:20-21 Like Unto Leaven p: 32
13:30 First and Last p: 72
16: 9 & 13 The Mammon of Unrighteousness p: 43
21:25-28 World’s End p: 73
23:24 Father Forgive p: 75
24:17 Emmaus 1 p: 76
24:25-26 Emmaus 2 p: 77
John 3:16-17 So Loved The World p: 33
6:35 I Am The Bread Of Life p: 56
6:68 The Words of Life p: 39
8:12 I Am the Light of the World p: 57
8:58 Before Abraham Was I Am p: 55
10:7 I Am the Door of the Sheepfold p: 58
10:11 I Am the Good Shepherd 59
11:25 I Am the Resurrection p: 60
11:43 He Who Has Ears to Hear p: 28
12:24 A Grain of Wheat p: 63
14:1-3 Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled p: 64
14:6 I Am the Way the Truth and the Life p: 61
15:5 I Am the Vine p: 62
Acts 9:1-19 Paul Blinded Being Led Into Damascus p 24
Romans 2:1 Imagine p: 46
Colossians 1:15-17 Everything Holds Together p: 1
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