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    parable


    1. Moreover, Jesus begins to illustrate the parable he told


    2. This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they


    3. You can find the description of it in Luke 16 with the parable of Lazarus and the rich man


    4. Parable of the Lost Sheep:


    5. Parable of the Lost Soul:


    6. 7And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they


    7. 6He spoke also this parable; a certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he


    8. 32Now learn a parable of the fig tree; when his branch is yet tender, and putted forth


    9. 6This parable spoke Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were


    10. 39And he spoke a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both

    11. 11And as they heard these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was nigh to


    12. 18Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower


    13. 1And he spoke a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not


    14. Parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it


    15. 32Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putted forth


    16. Jesus told the parable of the farmer that sowed seeds on the ground, some on stony ground, some on hard ground, and some among the weeds


    17. Consider the parable in Song of Songs chapter 5


    18. it?” Jesus gives us a key in the parable of the field (see Matt


    19. “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has


    20. 2) The parable in Luke 16:1, which He just told them, also began with the exact

    21. parable of the shrewd accountant', is clearly a parable (though not labeled as


    22. If the first is clearly a parable, why not the second, for it is in the 28


    23. 3) The point of the parable is at the end, " And he said unto him, If they hear not


    24. He made a point and backs it up with a parable


    25. The ultimate point of this parable is that their unbelief is due to money – not lack


    26. " The Parable itself is strictly of the Pharisees and their relation to the


    27. necessary in the interpretation of this Parable to keep in mind, that its


    28. But this parable


    29. for looking at this as a parable


    30. The parable that Jesus tells in Luke 19:27 teaches us that these ones will

    31. “Now learn a parable of the ; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh” (Matthew


    32. The Parable of The Great landowner and His beloved sheep


    33. The Parable of The aged shepherd


    34. As I thought about this feeling, the parable of the Prodigal Son came to mind


    35. 4:1–18, TLB) of the Old Testament, while the other was told hundreds of years later in Luke of the New Testament, a parable within the teachings of Jesus


    36. The parable as told by Jesus, on the other hand, was a greatly simplified story meant to illustrate a complex principle within a philosophy of conduct and probably wasn’t about real people


    37. From here the story and the parable diverge


    38. The Parable of the Prodigal Son suggests that there is a better way, and by searching the more detailed wording of the parable story we may gain a more complete understanding of the background in which the story of Cain and Abel is told


    39. His Parable of the Prodigal Son (The Lost Son) appears at first glance to be an updated retelling of the story of Cain and Abel for the purpose of teaching a way to avoid the consequences of the first account


    40. What is the message in the parable? Is it, don’t worry about who the party is for, just celebrate the good news?

    41. Suddenly, it appears to me, that it is as easy to become guilty of the same flaw as Jesus’ disciples were, that is taking the parable to be the message


    42. At first I was led into it in comparing the story, Cain and Abel, with a known parable, the Prodigal Son, because of my feeling that the two were connected


    43. That is the situation that we find ourselves in as we again take up the parable of Cain and Abel


    44. These are only some of the real-world cultural practices that the parable story of Cain and Abel might have been meant to depict as a way to help guide the casual wonderer to a better understanding of how they came to be


    45. So, the larger meaning of the parable story of Cain and Abel might be the friction generated between settled people and nomadic people, as ever-larger populations of each disputed with one another over land usage


    46. This fictionalized account would have to be seen as a parable in itself, as it of necessity has to be an abbreviated account of what any real-life encounter, or series of them, must have involved


    47. Is the story of Abraham also a parable? This biblical account seems to be much more than a story about of a single man’s epic journey in response to his “God’s” direction


    48. It seems to reflect anew, the tensions between “herding” and “settled” peoples as suggested in the parable story of “Cain and Abel” in chapter 9 of this book


    49. If this then is a much foreshortened version, a parable as it were, using symbolic language to replace a much longer recitation that could not be as easily remembered, was the snake a stand-in for something else that was well understood within their historically religious tradition?


    50. Could the short introduction to the biblical story of Abraham then be a parable representing the movement of followers of EL, the “God Most High” away from the religious power center of Ur? Because it was the eastern anchor of the Fertile Crescent, it would have made more sense to flee up the Euphrates River than to try to escape into the harsh desert environment that was the southern limit of their land














































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    Synonyms for "parable"

    allegory apologue fable parable anecdote yarn story narrative legend

    "parable" definitions

    a short moral story (often with animal characters)


    (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message