Favorite Bible verse?

[On the Road]

77. It May be Cheating to Use Thomas,

but the parables are so familiar that it's difficult to hear them like the original audience did without explanation:

"And Jesus said: The kingdom of the Father is like a woman carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking on a distant road, the handle of the jar broke and the meal poured out behind her on the road. She was unaware, she had not noticed the misfortune. When she came to her house, she put the jar down and found it empty."
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He who ears to hear, let him hear. On a poetic basis I like the opening of his brother's letter:

"Every good and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."