The Fish-Sorting story.
What kind of fish are you? Matthew 13.47-50 But before the Fish-Sorting story, let’s have the Fish Slapping Dance. You wanna watch the whole thing, do it here. Monty Python ’Cause this parable’s about the End, and about judging the wicked, so it’s a bit of a downer. So I thought I’d first cheer you up with some grown men hitting each other with dead fish. Considering a few of Jesus’s students were fishermen, stands to reason he’d include a fishing parable. This one compares sorting fish to sorting the wicked. Bad fish get tossed; bad humans get burnt. Matthew 13.47-50 KWL 47 “Again: Heaven’s kingdom is like a net thrown into the sea, gathering every kind of fish. 48 Once filled it ’s pulled up onto the beach and sorted. People gather good fish into a vat, and rotten fish are thrown out. 49 It’s the same at the end of the age: The angels will come out, and separate the evil from the middle of the righteous. 50 The angels will throw the evil into the fie