Main Parables Of Jesus What Are They And What Do They Mean?

All the parables that we find in the new testament come with infinities of reflections and teachings that we can take for our lives. But, the main parables of jesus (Yahshua) are very different since they focus on a specific purpose. Next, we will show you what they are and their purpose.

Listing all the parables of the Lord Jesus Christ (Yahshua Ha Mashiaj)

Now, to begin we list the parables that Christ (Ha Mashiaj) found in the word of God (Elohim):

1. Mt 13: 24-30) over the weed
2. Mt 13: 44-46) about the treasure and the pearl
3. Mt 18: 12-14) the parable of the lost sheep
4. Mt 18, 23-34) about the debtor
5. Mt 19, 16 -22) about the rich young man
6. Mt 21, 33-41) on the vineyard
7. Mt 22, 2-13) about weddings
8. Mt 25: 1-12) about ten virgins
9. Mt 25,14-28) about talents
10. Mt 20, 1-16) about the workers in the vineyard
11. Lk 8, 5-8) over the sower
12. Lk 10: 30-35) The Good Samaritan
13. Lk 13: 18-19) About the mustard seed
14. Lk 15.3-10) about the lost sheep)
15. Lk 15: 11-32) the prodigal son
16. Lk 16, 1-8) about the butler
17. Lk 19, 13-26) about the mines
18. Lk 20, 9-16) on the vineyard
19. Jn 15,1-7) viticulturists
20. Mt 25, 14-30) about the talents
21. widow and judge (Luke 18:1-8)

Now that you know how many parables of Jesus (Yahshua) there are, let’s start studying the most important ones (although they all are):

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Parables of Jesus (Yahshua)

The most outstanding parables that Jesus (Yahshua) left us have deep teachings about our nature and our indecisions, giving us lessons that cause us and change us. Let’s see what they are:

1. The prodigal son

The father had 2 children. The younger took his share of the property. He left and wasted his fortune, he had nothing to eat, he was so hungry that he even wanted to eat what the pigs ate, but nobody gave him that either.

In the country where he was, there was drought and poverty. The prodigal son wanted to return to his father, because his father’s servants had better than him at that time. The father welcomed him with joy, while his older brother was angry because the father made a welcome banquet.

The prodigal son was greeted with new robes and a ring. The father was very happy, he said that he “died and came back to life” means that he forgot about God and the commandments, and “he came back to life” means that he returned and became an active servant of God.

Explanation:

• The prodigal son apologized to his father for straying from God’s path, lost a lot of time for earthly pleasures and completely forgot about God. It was not the father and son who had lost his fortune, property did not matter, the most important thing was that he came back and became an active servant of God.
• The father in the parable illustrates God, because with open hands she took her son home, that is, to a group of Christians. God saw the sadness of the father in the face of his son and a certain repentance and humility that the son even wanted to fall before my father’s servants just to work with his sinful past.
• he repentedthen his father accepted it, he understood that the son who died was, that is, he lived in sin because he separated himself from the people of God and came back to life because he understood that life is only if you are a servant of God and you have to walk alone in God’s way, show God a lot of love and mercy for those who recognize that they need His forgiveness and return to Him.

What do we learn?: We must obey the law of God and believe in Jesus Christ (Yahshua Ha Mashiaj), who opened the way to the kingdom of God. The path goes through a narrow gate but leads to eternal life.

We must obey the Law of God and demonstrate that we are worthy in the way that Jesus (Yahshua) gives us. We must walk the path of God and ask, seek, knock, and it will open to us as a just and vigilant guest at the feast of the King’s son.

In the three synoptic gospels

Now let’s look at the synoptic gospels that have parallels in the parables of Jesus (Yahshua)

1. Parable of the sower

To present the parables of Jesus that we have chosen, we will follow a chronological criterion. No one really knows in what order they were uttered. Not if they really told him.

However, we know in what order they appear in the Gospels. Or at least we are close, since only a few parables appear in the three synoptic texts. The Parable of the Sower, the first one we analyze, is one of them, since it appears in Matthew (in chapter 13), in Mark (in 4) and in Luke (in 8).

Unlike other cases, here the parable is told in a very articulate way. In fact, the occasion serves the three evangelists to present, on the one hand, the particular way in which Jesus addressed the disciples and, on the other, to explain to the reader the possible interpretations of these stories.

In fact, the scene sees the Messiah preaching on a ship at sea, while the crowd listens to him on the shore. And the parable, as often happenedrefers to elements of the peasant life of the Jews of the time.

• The protagonist of the story is actually a sower who goes out to sow the seeds. Only not all of these seeds fall into good soil. Some end up on the road and get carried away by the birds.
• Another part falls on the rocks, where it also manages to form a plant that, however, without roots, lasts very little.
• Other seeds end up in brambles, where they are then suffocated by thorns. Finally, some seeds fall on good ground and bear fruit thirty, sixty or a hundred times.

All this is followed by the explanation of Jesus, who first illustrates to his disciples the general meaning of the parables and then the last one in particular. Some passages from the Gospel of Mark are very famous: “For whoever has, more will be given,” says Jesus for example, “and there will be plenty. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”.

The meaning of the parable is quite well known today. The seeds are the word of Godwhich obviously only bears fruit when it falls on a soil that is willing to receive it.

2. Parable of the Good Samaritan

If the parable of the sower is common to the first three gospels, the same cannot be said of the parable of the good Samaritan. Although well known, this story is found only in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 10. However, scholars will most likely consider it an authentic saying of Jesus and the basis of his ethics.

The story is about a man who, on his way from Jerusalem to Jericho, is attacked. Left half dead on the road, he is turned away by both a priest and a Levite, but a Samaritan rescues him. The latter bandages his wounds, pours oil and wine on them, and then takes the wounded man to an inn, also leaving some money to care for him.

The context of the story

Jesus narrates the episode in response to a question from a doctor of the law. The latter asks him what behavior he must follow to achieve eternal life, and Christ gives him this example to show him what in Leviticus is understood by the law “Love your neighbor as yourself”.

The true neighbor, in this parable, is in fact the Samaritan and not the one who, like the priests and the Levites, always goes to the temple. The Samaritans at that time hated the Jews.considered schismatics and in a way pagans.

Jesus chooses a representative of this people precisely to illustrate the superiority of ethics over theology. It doesn’t matter if you are an orthodox believer if you don’t love your neighbor. On the contrary, it is preferable not to believe and follow the evangelical teaching than to do the opposite.

3. Parable of the lost sheep

Continuing, in the Gospel of Luke, until chapter 15 we find another quite famous parable, the one with the lost sheep. Parable that is also found in other books, such as the Gospel of Matthew (chapter 18) and Thomas’s.

If you’ve never heard of this last text, don’t be surprised: it is an apocryphal gospelprobably of Gnostic origin, which nevertheless contains many sayings of Jesus that are also found in the synoptic texts.

The story is very simple. Jesus explains that a shepherd who had a flock of one hundred sheep and lost one, surely he would leave the other ninety-nine to go in search of the lost one. And once she found it, she would put it on his shoulders and rejoice. Because that would become dearer to him than the other ninety-nine for sure.

Four. Answer the Pharisees

In the Gospel of Luke, this parable is told as before in a group of three. These sequential accounts come to respond to the accusations of the Pharisees, who reproach Jesus for receiving sinners. But the latter uses examples to explain how it focuses more on those who are lost than on those who are never lost..

In fact, in chapter 10 of the Gospel we find a passage in which Jesus defines himself as a “good Shepherd” that offers “his life for the sheep”. Also clarifying the key of the parable.

5. Parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector

We conclude with the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector, told only in the Gospel according to Luke, in chapter 18. It is a parable that is linked to that of the good Samaritan, if only because of Jesus’ attempt to make it. Of course, those who believe that they are not always right are better than others.

In fact, the story features a Pharisee and a tax collector who go to the temple to pray. The first, standing, turns to God, thanking him for being upright, for following the law, and for being superior to the tax collector. The second, on the other hand, does not even look up and only beats his chest asking God for mercy.

The importance of humility

Jesus comments on the parable stating that the tax collector returns home justified, while the same is not the case with the Pharisee. On the other hand, he maintains, “He who exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted”. Here, therefore, the value of repentance is exalted and above all humility, which is a necessary premise.

The Pharisees were, at the time of Jesus, a religious group that fervently adhered to Biblical dictates, paying great attention to the law. An attention that, however, at least according to what we read in the Gospels, was often more formal than substantial.

Tax collectors, on the other hand, were Jews who collaborated with the Romans, often collecting taxes. For this reason they were frowned upon by the population.

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As you can see, the parables of Jesus (Yahshua) will always have a great impact on our lives. The way of seeing life with the teachings of Christ (Ha Mashiaj) will leave us a solution to the problems we face and will show us how to live and in a better way.