Peter's question — Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everyone? — shifts the teaching from the general crowd to the inner community and their specific responsibility. The faithful and wise manager whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time is a self-referential image: the disciples who receive Jesus' teaching are also entrusted with its distribution.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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