The joy of what kind of master? (Matthew 25: 14-30; 33A)
This master's ways are celebrated by the world, not by Jesus.
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In the context of the rest of the 25th chapter and the entire Gospel of Matthew, there is no case to be made that the master in this parable should be allegorized as Jesus, comforter of the poor, or God, who hears the cries of the oppressed and sets out a way of life summed up by Jesus in “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
