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.

Jesus’ story about servants (or slaves) in Luke 17:7–10 is one of his lesser-known parables. Here, Alec Hill expounds upon the parable, detailing spiritual lessons he’s gleaned from it about ...

Jesus’ parables – short stories with moral lessons – were likewise designed to afflict, to draw us in but leave us uncomfortable. These teachings can be read as being about divine love and ...

Read our latest issue or browse back issues. Long taught that parables could be sly, explosive, disruptive, and mind-grabbing. But he had to admit that most of his students’ sermons on the parables ...

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.

The new 13-week Bible study on the parables of Jesus is now available for purchase on Answered Faith's website. It is suitable for individual or group study and is open to people of all ages and ...

Q: I have heard that Jesus told parables to confuse people. Please explain. Answer: Scripture gives insight into Jesus’ usage of parables, but the purpose was broader than confusion. First, we ...

The problem is that a huge chunk of Jesus’ parables do not have happy endings, and almost all of them are decidedly bittersweet. Some figure out the meaning of life. Some don’t. Some get in.

As Urban demonstrates, Milton went far beyond the standard practices of Reformed Puritan scriptural interpretation, incorporating the larger ideals he found in the parables while relating those also ...