Book #3: The Parables of Jesus by Arland Hultgren

This last book draws conclusions that differ from all my other research. Firstly, the author toys with the idea that 3 years have been understood by Luke have alluded to the three year ministry of jesus. Additionally, he says the two figures within the story (the owner and the laborer) can represent the two sides of god - judgment and mercy. He satates the this parable is a laden with a tone of urgency during a time of much conflict and violence, and that this parable is trying to convince people to repent. Interestingly, he says the landowner who comes looking for the fruit (and finds none) is God, and that he is stirred by the lack of fruitfullness, while the other side of God is all-merciful and prevails for the time.