Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A singlerpt mustard seed resting on the tip of a finger. Jesus was a master of teaching truths through parables. Jesus’ parables ...

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 sayings ...

Why did Jesus speak to people in parables? Scholars are agreed beyond doubt that Jesus taught in parables. The parable is a type of speech act in which the speaker attempts to draw comparisons between ...

Our Sunday gospel reading today is another parable… The Parable of the Tenants, which you can find in your Bibles in Matt.21:33-43. [Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people,] 33 Hear ...

Today’s Sunday Gospel is the Parable of the Weeds Among the Wheat and you can read it in Matt.13: 24-43. Actually this is one parable that our Lord tells the crowds, but eventually explains its ...

The parable of the sower is an 'allegory' about the Kingdom of God. In other words, it can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, everything in the story represents something else. It is a growth ...

ONE of the best-known and best-loved stories in the gospels is the parable of the Prodigal Son. With its promise of forgiveness and reconciliation for the repentant sinner, it has no doubt been a ...

Some followers of Jesus refuse to follow Jesus in his wording and meaning of the parable of the sower. This parable is a key parable to “understand all the parables” ...

The renowned Jewish scholar Dr. Amy-Jill Levine tells us the truth about the parables associated with Jesus in her “Short Stories by Jesus.” It is an excellent, eye-opening, and thought-provoking easy ...