The rabbinic parables are of course the closest in both time and place to those of Jesus. The following example is interesting for its similarity to the Gospel parable of the Two Builders (Mt 7:24 ...

And the Parable of the Ten Virgins is among the ... (1 Corinthians 6:19). The Gospel message which Jesus delivered was "first for the Jew, then for the Gentile" (Romans 1:16).

Do you have a garden this year? How is it doing? We certainly have had plenty of rain recently. While having departed from my ...

The gospel of John is dramatically ... John presents no parables and relatively few stories of healings. Instead, Jesus gives several long discourses which are teeming with theological content.

the parables appear have an enigmatic, riddling quality, and the disciples come to Jesus looking for explanations (Mark 4:10-12). While there are many similarities, each Gospel also has its ...

But the original Gospel story still stands four-square ... in examples of social-mindedness.” In using parables, Jesus was “a great artist, a superb storyteller, a born dramatist. . . .” In ...