Quotes about Parable

Then Jesus told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.

If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

Now the parable takes on a very personal focus. We can no longer enjoy observation without participation. We are part of the drama that is staged in this parable. Jesus came. What have we done with the truth of His message and the gift of His forgiving death?

Jesus' story makes no economic sense, and that was his intent. He was giving us a parable about grace, which cannot be calculated like a day's wages. Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.

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.

I think that story about Jesus and the rich man also means that while everybody is invited, not everybody is willing.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Mark 12:34When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, 'You are not far from the Kingdom of God.