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 ...

Jesus is most famous, I think, for parables and aphorisms. And both of them are really ways of teaching ordinary people. Now, if you read them in the New Testament, it might take a minute to read ...

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 ...