But What Does It Mean?

And the disciples came up and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” Matthew 13:10 NASB Parables – Read the rest of the passage (Matthew 13:10-16).  Yeshua’s remarks are particularly discouraging!  What he essentially says is this: If you haven’t been granted the ability to understand, you simply won’t.  Furthermore, only some…

Dark Sayings

And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”  Matthew 13:10  NASB Parables– “The Bible is familiar, life is strange.”[1]  Maybe we have it backwards.  Maybe the “dark sayings” are really how we live, and those verses in the Bible that seem so odd and impenetrable at first,…

Storytelling

And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”Matthew 13:10 NASB Parables– Let’s consider the biblical approach of communication.  Why doesn’t the Bible just give us a list of rules or a well-organized theology?  Why does it sort of ramble around, throwing in parts of different genres of…