Jesus' Parables - 1

Introduction

Why Jesus spoke in Parables. And when did it start? 

• John 11:57
• Mark 12:12

How are we to understand the parables of Jesus? 

• Matthew 13:1 (that day)
• Matthew 13:3

• Para means to lay alongside.  
• Parable is a story laid alongside a truth to demonstrate their parallel realities
• Jesus began this day to speak in parables.
• Jesus has been a theological preacher, but now, all of the sudden, He becomes a story-teller

This all gets launched on a Sabbath Day. 

• God’s law for the Sabbath is this: don’t work, period. 
• Isaiah 58:13

Rabbis they created a massive complex of Sabbath laws

Jesus loved to violate their Sabbath laws – their legalistic system

• Matthew 12:1-2

• Not by any Old Testament law. 
• Purely and simply because of the traditions

David’s men eating show bread

• Matthew 12:3-7

Jesus is the Lord of Sabbath

• Matthew 12:8

Jesus heals a man with a withered hand in Synagogue

• Matthew 12:9-13

Pharisees want to destroy Him

• Matthew 12:15

Jesus loved to violate their Sabbath laws – their legalistic system

•  Demon possessed man
• Matthew 12:22-24

What is their conclusion after two years of ministry?

• Matthew 12:24
• He’s inspired by Satan himself

Blasphemy of Holy Spirit

• Matthew 12:31

Devine condemnation

• Matthew 12:37

Jesus began to speak in parables

• Mark 4:33

Why parables?

Contemporary reasoning are false

Why parables?

• Matthew 13:10-11

It was a judgment on willful, hard-hearted unbelief

• Matthew 13:12-13
• Isaiah 6:1-11
• Matthew 13:19-23