Parables were often used by Jewish rabbis who were contemporaries of Jesus. A famous and quite ancient Old Testament example is the parable of the Ewe Lamb which the prophet Nathan addressed to David.

In the Parables of Jesus genre ... Take the story of the Great Banquet found in Matthew 22 and Luke 14, for example. The story compares God’s kingdom to a king’s feast with a guest list ...

Only when we hear the parables as Jesus’ own audience did can we fully experience their power and find ourselves surprised and challenged today. Here are four examples of Jesus’ teachings that ...

The parables were also about ordinary activities people could understand that then reveal the hidden reality of God’s Kingdom present in them. For example, the parable of the sower was about ...

Holiness is love. It is knowing and loving God and his creatures."" Other parables fall flat. For example, in the ""Parable of the Ark,"" the Church is rather blandly compared to Noah's Ark--it is ...

And the example of a bad word is like a bad tree, uprooted from the surface of the earth, not having any stability.}[Quran 14:24-26] These two verses include two parables that Allaah offers about ...

The parable of the Good Samaritan and the parable of the Prodigal Son are two of the most well-known examples of the many parables attributed to Jesus." Jesus gave 30 to 50 parables or stories that ...

Parables were often used by Jewish rabbis who were contemporaries of Jesus. A famous and quite ancient Old Testament example is the parable of the Ewe Lamb which the prophet Nathan addressed to David.

Only when we hear the parables as Jesus’ own audience did can we fully experience their power and find ourselves surprised and challenged today. Here are four examples of Jesus’ teachings that ...