During the Lord's earthly ministry, Jesus often spoke in parables, which were earthly stories with a heavenly meaning. And ...

Jesus wasn’t speaking in parables when he gave his famous sermon to go to the aid of the “strangers” (foreigners) in our midst. He wasn’t being rhetorical. He was delineating a course of ...

Jesus himself reveals and conceals his identity. Mark depicts Jesus as speaking in parables, yet his insights are offered only to a select few. Addressing his disciples, Jesus says: "To you has ...

We occasionally meet in these parables the land owner and the ... These books do not yet exist.... Whatever it was that Jesus spoke, he was speaking words of his own, he was speaking words of ...

Even with the angry crowd and His disciples leaving Him, Jesus did not change His teaching nor say that He was merely speaking figuratively or in parables. His response to the Apostles was ...

(NIV) In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus told the story of a Jewish man walking from Jerusalem to Jericho. On the journey he was attacked by robbers and left for dead. Two Jewish ...

Jesus’ parable in Luke’s Gospel masterfully illustrates ... This title probably comes from a tradition in English-speaking Christianity that highlights “wastefulness” as among the greatest ...