Portfolio 1: The Parable of the Tenant

In the parable of the tenant talks about forgiveness and how the fact that violence always leads to something bad. In the parable, a farmer rents out a farm to some tenants that end up betraying him. They first take the crop and when he sends messengers to collect they abuse them. The beat up the first one and the 2nd one and kill the 3rd. Finally the farmer decides that perhaps if he sends his son, they will respect him and finally give him the crops that he desires. Sadly, they kill the son and throw him out, thinking that when they kill him the farmer will give them the farm. The parable doesn't go into detail about what the owner of the farm does when they kill his only and most beloved son, but it is assumed that he goes to his farm and kills the tenets then rents the farm out to others. This parable shows that violence does not accomplish anything except bad things at the end of it. As in the Palestinian and Israel conflict, violence does not stop it, only escalates it.