The parables are generally regarded by scholars ... the hearers would have been able to grasp the meaning of the story Jesus told. An observation made by a New Testament scholar writing at the ...

If you are currently procrastinating like the foolish virgins, then stop putting it off because you may very well run out of ...

(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 ...

In Matthew twenty Jesus told a parable in which the church is shown as the vineyard of God. The parable starts out, “For the ...

Did Jesus preach, as best we know ... want to tell people what to think you preach them a sermon. If you tell them a parable then you're leaving yourself open, inevitably, to interpretation.