Pronouncement


Pronouncement Story

Brief stories which lead to a dramatic saying of Jesus and correlate an event with the saying. The story exists for the saying.

(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. The Bible as Literature by Leland Ryken, Page 124-125)

Consider the story in Mark 12:13-17 that leads to Jesus' famous quote, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”