Jesus is most famous, I think, for parables and aphorisms. And both of them are really ways of teaching ordinary people. Now, if you read them in the New Testament, it might take a minute to read ...

The Pharisees saw Jesus as an enemy because his words went against their strict interpretations of the law, interpretations ...

Jesus taught in parables about wealth and what those who are wealthy should do with it. It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a ...

PARABLES CONCEAL TRUE MESSAGE One of the peculiar features of Mark's gospel in its presentation of Jesus is that, when Jesus teaches he often actually conceals the significance of his own words ...

The Thorny Soil: Here, seeds struggle amidst thorns—worldly concerns. The cares of life, the pursuit of wealth, and desires ...

He told the parable to explain ... This is the wrong attitude. Jesus taught that God is willing to let us off a debt we cannot repay, so we should be ready to forgive others.

He does. Notice, too, that Jesus rebukes every temptation by having recourse to Scripture. Draw strength from what God’s teaches and slay each temptation by the “sword of the Spirit,” which ...

Then Cardinal McElroy read the account of the Parable of the Good Samaritan from the Gospel of Luke 10:25-37, in which a man ...