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The Net and the Store Room
The Net and the Store Room
NT252 Parables of Jesus (Parables Defined)
NT252 Parables of Jesus (Parables Defined)
“A parable is a metaphor drawn from life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness, and leaving the mind in enough doubt about its significance to tease it into active thought.”-C.H.Dodd Parables of the Kingdom
NT252 Parables of Jesus (Tell It Slant)
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant; success in circuit lies, too bright for our infirm delight … The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.” -Emily Dickenson
NT252 Parables of Jesus How Parables Work > Understanding Jesus’ Parables in Matthew 13
Well, how do parables work? Again, they hide the truth from some, from foes who’ve rejected what they’ve seen, saying they did not see. And so the word’s taken away, but they reveal it to others. To whom? To disciples. To disciples who want to know what it means, who admit “I don’t know what it means” [and ask,] “Jesus, why are you speaking in parables? What does it mean?” And Jesus says, “I’ll tell you. Parables, for disciples, are graphic.
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a fishing net that was thrown into the water and caught fish of every kind.
When the net was full, they dragged it up onto the shore, sat down, and sorted the good fish into crates, but threw the bad ones away.
That is the way it will be at the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked people from the righteous,
throwing the wicked into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Do you understand all these things?” “Yes,” they said, “we do.”
Then he added, “Every teacher of religious law who becomes a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a homeowner who brings from his storeroom new gems of truth as well as old.”