but only so that the lesson will be more deeply engraved on the mind. Again, this is not to say that Jesus employed parables with the aim of making his subject obscure. A parable is an implied ...

JACOB: What’s a para… parble? NARRATOR: A parable! These are stories Jesus told that contained simple lessons. The stories were usually about everyday things that the people he preached to ...

Frequently they are controversial, occasionally confronting. Parables were a trademark method of teaching used by Jesus, drawn from the practice of ancient Israel. In fact he hardly ever taught ...