The Parables of Jesus: Mustard vs. Cedar

About this episode

This episode explores the parables of Jesus, emphasizing their unexpected elements and the importance of understanding them in their original context.

Parables, like all good metaphors, work best when their comparative elements are unexpected and novel. While the parables of Jesus may have grown familiar to the point of white noise for many believers, listening to them afresh through the ears of Jesus's audience, with all their narrative and theological expectations, may help us experience Jesus's teaching as He intended.

Topics covered

• parables
• metaphors
• Jesus
• teaching
• theology

Keywords

• parables
• Jesus
• metaphors
• theological expectations
• teaching

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Parables of Jesus

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