Long’s discovery led to a fresh awareness: the power of parables is “the kingdom of God to which they refer.” Parables do ...

If you have understood all of the above parables, then the Kingdom of Heaven will be opened for you, if you follow and do according to these teachings of Christ. God bless you all.

This article also appeared in print, under the headline “Three More Parables About God's Kingdom,” in the July 21, 2008, issue.

So when Jesus comes preaching about the Kingdom to come, we should take note of what He teaches the Kingdom is like. In Mark 4:21-34, Jesus teaches parables about the Kingdom and what it is like.

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The Parable in the Ancient World. When Jesus preached so strikingly in parables, he did not create a new literary genre. ... "The kingdom of God is as if" (e.g. Mk 4:26, 30-31; Mt 13:33).

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Anyone who reads the Bible has come to know the parables of Christ. These are basically short stories, designed to draw people in using common everyday scenarios so that people ...

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 ...

One day, Jesus Christ sat beside the sea and a great crowd gathered around him. He got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the beach. He taught them in parables.