Jesus was a master of teaching truths through parables. Jesus’ parables are short stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson using ordinary everyday experiences, analogy or similar comparisons.

The importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings ...

Why did Jesus speak to people in parables? Scholars are agreed beyond doubt that Jesus taught in parables. The parable is a type of speech act in which the speaker attempts to draw comparisons between ...

Our Sunday gospel reading today is another parable… The Parable of the Tenants, which you can find in your Bibles in Matt.21:33-43. [Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people,] 33 Hear ...

ONE of the best-known and best-loved stories in the gospels is the parable of the Prodigal Son. With its promise of forgiveness and reconciliation for the repentant sinner, it has no doubt been a ...

Today’s Sunday Gospel is the Parable of the Weeds Among the Wheat and you can read it in Matt.13: 24-43. Actually this is one parable that our Lord tells the crowds, but eventually explains its ...

The parable of the sower is an 'allegory' about the Kingdom of God. In other words, it can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, everything in the story represents something else. It is a growth ...

One of the best known parables that Jesus taught us during his life on earth was the story of the good Samaritan. This familiar story tells of a man who was mugged on the road between Jericho and ...

Author’s Note: There are many versions of the story of the Rag Man. Acknowledgment goes to “Meet Me at the Museum,” a novel by Anne Youngson, for inspiring this column on the Rag Woman. Just as the ...

The man who passed by the injured person on the road to Jericho was emotionally impaired. The prodigal son becomes the negative attention-getting son. And the foolish bridesmaids who were unprepared ...