There was a high likelihood that Jesus’ mom was an impoverished widow when he told this “end times” parable.

I like to believe that as the embodiment of Truth with the memory of all human stories fully at his disposal, Jesus never needed to resort to fictional narratives in his parable.

He actually knew Prodigal Sons and Good Samaritans, saw women searching for their lost coins and managers who abhorred the idea of digging or begging.

No one in his parables feels any more real or vivid than this widow.

Her cause is real

Her judge is useless

Her status is negligible

And yet, she prevails because she never gives up

And if she doesn’t give up, then what excuse do we have?

Pound on the gates of Heaven

Ask God for eternal things…

Eternal treasure, like the kind you might find in a field and buy with all you ever had.

Luke 18:1-5 KJV
[1] And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; [2] Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: [3] And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. [4] And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; [5] Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

Matthew 13:44 KJV
[44] Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.