Quotes about Parable

And the Lord answered, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.

So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and complaints. Behold how quietly she takes her death! And without objecting she suffereth her skin to be pulled over her ears. Your King doth call you his sheep.

As soon as Jesus was alone with the Twelve and those around Him, they asked Him about the parable.

Then He asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? With what parable shall we present it?

It is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”

Loving God, allow me to be a sheep at least once in a while, and never let me forget that most of my life I have been a goat."       Tuesday

He did not tell them anything without using a parable. But privately He explained everything to His own disciples.

One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them.

Like a thorn that falls into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.

“Lord,” said Peter, “are You addressing this parable to us, or to everyone else as well?”