A
candidate for church membership was asked, "What part of the Bible do you
like best?" He said: "I like the New Testament best. Then he was
asked, "What Book in the New Testament is your favorite?" He
answered, the Book of the Parables, Sir." They then asked him to relate
one of the parables to the membership committee. And a bit uncertain, he
began...
"Once
upon a time a man went down from Jerusalem
to Jericho, and
fell among thieves; and the thorns grew up and choked the man. And he went on
and met the Queen of Sheba, and she gave that man, Sir, a thousand talents of
silver, and a hundred changes of raiment. And he got in his chariot and drove
furiously, and as he was driving along under a big tree, his hair got caught in
a limb and left him hanging here! And he hung there many days and many nights.
The ravens brought him food to eat and water to drink. And one night while he
was hanging there asleep, his wife Delilah came along and cut off his hair, and
he fell on stoney ground. And it begin to rain, and rained forty days and forty
nights. And he hid himself in a cave. Later he went on and met a man who said,
"Come in and take supper with me." But he said, "I can't come
in, for I have married a wife." And the man went out into the highways and
hedges and compelled him to come in! He then came to Jerusalem, and saw Queen Jezebel sitting high
and lifted up in a window of the wall. When she saw him she laughed, and he
said, "Throw her down out of there," and they threw her down. And he
said "Throw her down again," and they threw her down
seventy-times-seven. And the fragments which they picked up filled twelve baskets
full! NOW, whose wife will she be in the day of the Judgment?"
The
membership committee agreed that this was indeed a knowledgeable candidate!
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