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 ...

This parable vindicates Jesus’ own Gospel of receiving publicans and sinners. In Luke 11 we read that as parents, being evil, give good food to their children, so the Heavenly Father gives the ...

The Gospel of Thomas, a 2,000-year-old text that was left out of the Bible, contains 114 sayings that are attributed to Jesus, but they paint a new picture ...

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.

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 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 ...

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).