Parables were a trademark method of teaching used by Jesus, drawn from the practice of ancient Israel. In fact he hardly ever ...

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 ...

Jesus is most famous, I think, for parables and aphorisms. And both of them are really ways of teaching ordinary people. Now, if you read them in the New Testament, it might take a minute to read ...

(NIV) In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus told the story of a Jewish man walking from Jerusalem to Jericho. On the journey he was attacked by robbers and left for dead. Two Jewish ...

The Parable of the Good Samaritan is one of the most famous parables of Jesus. But people have been misinterpreting it for centuries.

Using parables and simple language, Jesus broke no Roman law but he occasionally rubbed religious authorities wrongly by seeming to challenge the Laws of Moses, the foundation of Judaism.

The series is an educational non-sectarian collection of stories from the New Testament Bible, intended to encourage positive values and character traits in young people.

The main goal in sharing this article series is to investigate how Jesus approached and interacted with need in humanity.

Jesus says, “The Kingdom of Heaven is similar to a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of ...