The importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings ...

I have just finished preaching a series of sermons on Jesus’ parables. Jesus used many parables in his preaching and teaching. The Lord’s parables are very short stories taken from real-life ...

Jesus' parables are among the most memorable and distinctive elements in the Gospels. Jesus uses these striking short stories to explain the extraordinary, unexpected and apocalyptic nature of God's ...

Preachers this July will find no fewer than seven parables in the Sunday readings. Matthew collects them in Chapter 13: the parable of the sower, the wheat and the weeds, the mustard seed, the yeast, ...

The Bible tells us in Matthew 13:34, "All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them." When Jesus wanted to get a spiritual truth across to ...

Jesus was a master of teaching truths through parables. Jesus’ parables are short stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson using ordinary everyday experiences, analogy or similar comparisons.

Jesus often spoke in parables. The parable of the sower is the only one recorded in Matthew, Mark and Luke. Jesus’ interpretation and explanation as to why he spoke in parables is also in all three.

Jesus’ parables – short stories with moral lessons – were likewise designed to afflict, to draw us in but leave us uncomfortable. These teachings can be read as being about divine love and salvation, ...