Parables were often used by Jewish rabbis who were contemporaries of Jesus. A famous and quite ancient Old Testament example is the parable of the Ewe Lamb which the prophet Nathan addressed to David.

The Gospel message which Jesus delivered was "first for the Jew, then for the Gentile" (Romans 1:16). Christ ministered among both Jews and Gentiles and He wanted all of them to be saved (see John ...

Judaism And Jesus Christ Play 46:47. Close ×. Copy the code below to ... Boston Globe: Jesus, the consummate storyteller — "The parables of Jesus are recounted in all four Gospels, ...

Last Sunday, we discussed the Parable of the Sower on Matt. 13:1-23, one of the few parables that our Lord Jesus Christ himself gives and then explains to his disciples what it really meant. Today ...

Book review: If Jesus came to liberate all of us, does that mean queer liberation as well? Rolf R. Nolasco Jr. faces this question head-on in his new book Hearts Ablaze: Parables for the Queer Soul.

Bill Hutto and Jesus Gomez say those parables or stories illustrated morals or spiritual lessons and they still have universal applications. They’re in Matthew 13:31-33, Mark 4:30-32 and Luke 13 ...

The parables are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings which we can confidently ascribe to the historical Jesus; they are, for the most part, authentic words of Jesus.