Matthew, Chapters 13-22

I immediately picked up on the fisherman theme that is so commented in the New Testament, as the sea is mentioned in the first verse. Many of his disciples were fishermen, and Jesus was called "A fisher of men" and the fish is a christian symbol. However I wonder whether this was intendend or if his disciples added their own view to it.

If we take away the godly and divine aspect of Jesus, you still see a great man, a very wise man. He was ahead of his time, preaching love and forgiveness. And he spoke in parables, which remind me of so many great texts and thinkers before. Gilgamesh, Greek Myths, the Analects and the latest and most complex the Tao whose metaphors required reading of each chapter to be done twice or thrice. Jesus is easier to read in that way because he preached to a simple people and therefore his metaphors are simple too. It was also sophisticated selection method, like clubs picking better patrons and preschool better applicants, because it made sense to the smarter, the more aware, the ones that were "best" to have in following and these in turn could explain to those who weren't as worldly.