Why Did Jesus Use Parables to Convey Much of His Teaching? What Can We Learn from This About How We Should Communicate ‘Good News’ to the People Around Us?

Jesus spoke in parables. He used simple stories and metaphors to teach moral lessons to the disciples. In his parables, there were familiar settings, objects, rituals, etc. in order to make the lesson easier for the disciples to understand. The parables of The Sower, Ten Bridesmaids, Weeds in the Wheat, and Treasure in the Field are parables which provide us with instructions on how to be true followers of Christ. Jesus’s philosophy of life, as shown by these parables, is to be open minded, prepared, spread positivity, and to give up mental roadblocks in order to have faith.

In today’s world people make a common mistake by making comparisons with the Bible and Aesop’s Fables. In the Bible it is important to which is emphasized more, law or grace. It is just as important to do the same in Aesop’s Fables. Very often a mistake is easily made in reading Jesus’s Parables. Understanding the emphasis of law and grace in both the Bible and Aesop’s Fables and realizing mistakes we make with reading Jesus’s parables can help with reading the parables

Parables are stories written in the Bible for truth and life guidance. We have to understand that parables are implied by God to encourage his written word and carry his truths. God’s words can touch a heart of faith despite their external circumstance. The history of parables started with Jesus writing “the sower and the seed” in the book of Matthew. The sower and the seed was the seed is “the word.” The hard ground represents the person who is hardened by sin. Parables date back as far as

A parable is an ordinary, earthly story with a heavenly meaning. In Mark 4:9 Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear”. This was a call to listen for those who seek the truth of God. There are about 35 of Jesus’ parables recorded in the Gospels. I chose to analyze Matthew 22: 1-14 and explain its relevance then and in our lives today.

Parables are known as a unique style of telling stories, which were used to illustrate a single point. Parables were often used by Jesus to help people understand and sometimes to

In chapter one, Arthurs pointed that God is the “great communicator” who communicated with variety. Variety is found throughout the word of God. Because God is a great communicator who used variety, preachers should preach with variety. Jesus used all kinds of form style, and genres of preaching. He knew how to get people attention. Preaching with variety helps the text to come alive. “Jesus used anecdotes, stories, paradoxes, contradictions, humor, irony, questions, and answers” (pg. 21), so we can too. Not only did Jesus used parables, objects, monologue and dialogue, but he used parables and symbols.

Throughout the bible Jesus has taught using parables many times, John chapter 10 verses 1 through 21 are another

Thank you for your post. You did a great job summarizing your thoughts on Jesus parables. As a pastor, I appreciated your concluding paragraph regarding how one might contextualize these parables for the modern hearer. It is often the case that the scriptures present common practices of the day which may appear to be foreign to us in the modern age. That being said, I agree with your statement that, “These parables have survived the ages because the analogies used are ones people can identify with even if they are not farmers or bakers – the process is still familiar enough that all can identify” (Soule, 2016, para.3). For those who may not be familiar with certain ideas, the pastor must be careful to enlighten the congregation

In the Bible, there are always passages where it shows Jesus teaching someone or a group of people, so it would make perfect sense to call Jesus a teacher. I also find it smart that Jesus used parables to teach a lesson (Yancey 54). Most of the things that people always remember are things that they enjoy, such as songs, movies, books, poems. People remember these things the most because all of these things tell a story. It would make sense for Jesus to incorporate his teachings in parables that tell stories in order for people to remember his

This week we learned how Jesus talked to his disciples, how he led his people, and how this week's content will help the case I am working on. It seems that he would not just give the answer to the person he was teaching, he used parables so that the individual would be able to play the scenario in their head and come up with their own conclusion. In the historical world, Jesus was not the only individual that used parables.

Apparently our Lord Jesus instructed and taught His disciples and His people, using many parables during His ministry so that He could let His people have better comprehension as to the mysteries

The three synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke each recount the good news about Jesus. The authors of the aforementioned literature describe the same events as if they had observed all of them personally and were reporting what they saw at the time. These authors were very descriptive in their literature as they described Jesus teaching (Harris, 2014). When reading the Gospels, the first feature which strikes the reader is the way in which Jesus adapted His teaching to the type of hearer, with whom He was dealing (n.d., Linderer). According to Matthew and Mark, Jesus consistently taught in a figurative language. Figurative language can be described as a figure of speech, language that compares, exaggerates, or means something other than what it first appears to mean. Nevertheless, the signature style Jesus used for teaching is the parable. A parable is similar to figurative language as it is defined as placing beside or a comparison (Harris, 2014). In addition, it takes the form of a brief fictional narrative, generally comparing some familiar object or practice to the dawning Kingdom of God. An example of this Jesus comparing God’s Kingdom to the unexpected discovery of a

Parables are stories to illustrate moral and spiritual lessons1. A parable has a function to bring forth a response one who hears the parable2. How I view, a parable is that it is meant to clarify something that was already said by Jesus that was no understood the first time.

A parable is, literally, something “cast alongside” something else. Jesus’ parables were stories that were “cast alongside” a truth in order to illustrate that truth. His parables were

In the New Testament, parables are a very important way that Jesus uses to teach the Pharisees, the disciples, and Christians for all time to come. “The Parable of the Lost Sheep” and “The Parable of the Lost Son” are two examples of the teaching of Jesus Christ.