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 ...

While we could spend weeks talking about parables, we'll move next to metaphors, which make a spiritual application. Examples ...

Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy seven times.” He told the parable to explain. When the king heard about this, he called for the first servant.

In the parables of the mustard seed and the yeast, Jesus talks of how even the smallest amount of faith can grow ...

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 ...

In the parable of the good Samaritan, a priest and a Levite passed the man in need before the Samaritan arrived. Why did they ...