They appear even in the oldest books of the Old Testament. Parables were often used by Jewish rabbis who were contemporaries of Jesus. A famous and quite ancient Old Testament example is the ...

book of Luke, Jesus went to the synagogue ... to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.” (NIV) In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus told the story of a Jewish man walking from ...

Did Jesus preach, as best we know? And if he did preach what kinds of things did he preach about? When Jesus speaks, the major verb that is used in the gospel accounts is "to teach...." He teaches ...