When Jesus preached so strikingly in parables, he did not create a new ... with respect to how easy or difficult they are to understand. For example, the Growing Seed (Mk 4:26-29) is quite abstruse.

(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 ...

Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy seven times.” He told the parable to explain. When the king heard about this, he called for the first servant.

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 ...

In the parable of the weeds, Jesus lays out God's plan for separating the good people of his earth — the wheat — from the ...

What does it mean to sow seeds of faith in good soil? This week, we're taking a look at the parable of the sower.

But you disciples, Jesus says, addressing his loyal followers, rank among the initiated and know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, so you do understand my parables, and can learn from them ...

If we won’t, no one will. We are the ones who are given authority by Jesus Himself to fulfill His great commission. If we don’t know or understand that authority, then what good is it?

The parables are sometimes confusing ... demonstrating a faith that is rooted in the redemptive power of Jesus. This is a ...

When her pimp... Girzone's beloved and bestselling Joshua series continues with Joshua retelling Jesus' parables with a modern twist. Believing that the ""zing"" that Jesus' parables had in the ...