One day, a man was asked to recite a story from the Bible. So, he chose to tell one of the parables, his favorite parable—the story of the Good Samaritan. “Once there was this man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among thorns. And the thorns sprung up and choked him, and as he was going on, he didn’t have any money, so he met the Queen of Sheba. She gave him 1,000 talents of gold and 100 changes of raiment. He then got into a chariot and drove furiously. When he was driving under a big juniper tree, his hair got caught in the limb of that tree, and he hung there many days. The ravens brought him food to eat and water to drink, and he ate 5,000 loaves of bread and two fishes. One night while he was hanging there asleep, his wife, Delilah, came along and cut off his hair. He dropped and fell on the stony ground, but he got up and continued on. Soon it began to rain. It rained for forty days and forty nights, and the water rose so high that a great fish swallowed him, but it threw him up three days later. Being confused by all these events, he hid himself in a cave and lived on locusts and wild honey.
“When the rain stopped, he went on until he met a servant who said, ‘Come, take supper at my house!’ But the man made excuses and said, ‘No, I won’t. I have married a wife and I can’t go.’ But, the servant went out into the highways and hedges and compelled him to come in. After supper, he went on his way and finally came down into Jericho. When he got there, he looked up and saw that old queen, Jezebel, sitting way up high in a window. She laughed at him! The man became furious and said, ‘Throw her down out of there!’ So, they threw her down. Then he said, ‘Throw her out of there again!’ And they threw her down seventy times seven, and of the pieces that remained, they picked up twelve baskets full, besides the women and children. Then the man said, ‘Blessed are the piecemakers.’ Now, whose wife will she be on the judgment day?”
This was NOT a real parable. The events, facts and general details were compiled by Mike Snavely to highlight how people can get mixed up on what they think they know. Paul said this to Timothy, “For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions. But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully” (1 Tim. 1:6-8). May we never be guilty of what Christ said concerning some in His day, “But Jesus answered and said to them, ‘You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God’” (Matt. 22:29).