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Jesus's Response to the Eben
In this wordplay, Jesus is connecting the sun in the parable to the Ben. And what he's doing is hyperlinking things that are already hyperlinked in the Hebrew Bible about the rejected sun and servant of Isaiah. Here he's picking up Langot from Daniel's dream in Daniel chapter two about the big statue of being crushed. The chief priests and Pharisees heard the parables, they knew he was talking about them.