Parables of Jesus

Examples of 66 Parables are given here.
A parable is an earthly story with a spiritual insight.
"An earthly story with a heavenly meaning."


And with many such parables He spoke the word to them ... ~ Mark 4:33-34

   
    
= Spirit            
    
= Responsibility  
    
= Be Ready  
    
= Forgiveness 
    
= Repentance 
    
= Kingdom

PARABLE  *  MATTHEW MARK LUKE JOHN * INSIGHT *
    1.  Salt without taste   5:13 9:50 14:34-35   Outward Godliness is foolish
without deep inward reverence
    2.  Christian light   5:14-16 4:21-23 8:16-18   Expose the Lord’s light in you
    3.  Offensive body parts   5:29-30;
18:7-9
9:43-48     Fear hell and purge one’s sins
casting them off as offensive
    4.  The body's lamp   6:22–23   11:33–36     Seek goodness over evil  
    5.  The speck and the log   7:1–5   6:41–42     Examine one's own flaws  
    6.  The son's request   7:9–11   11:11-13     Call and God will come  
    7.  Narrow gate "door" closes     7:13-14   13:24-28     Judgment comes abruptly  
    8.  Good and bad fruit   7:16-20;
12:33
  3:7-9;
6:43-45
    A heart’s fruit tells of spirit  
    9.  Wise builder   7:24-27   6:47-49   Obedience creates strength
  10.  Grooms attendants   9:14-15 2:18-20 5:33-35   Glory be God came to Earth!
Jesus is soul food of truth
  11.  New cloth   9:16 2:21 5:36   New law clashes with the old
  12.  Great physician   9:10-13 2:15-17 5:29-32   Repentance is soul medicine
  13.  New wine   9:17 2:22 5:37-39   New law supersedes old law,
It will be difficult to accept
  14.  Children in market   11:16-19   7:31-35   Purity of wisdom prevails
  15.  Two debtors       7:41-43   None can repay God’s Love
  16.  Divided kingdom   12:24-30 3:22-27 11:14-23   Hypocrites will always fail
  17.  Sign of Jonah   12:38-42   11:29-32   Proudly seeking proof devoid
of repentance misses Christ
  18.  Unclean spirit   12:43-45   11:24-26   Evil's unruly acts can become
habit if not forgone for Christ
  19.  Rich fool       12:16-21   Focus on God, not yourself
  20.  Watching servants       12:35-40   Wait on the Lord your God
  21.  Barren fig tree       13:6-9   Don’t quit on unbelievers
  22.  The Sower's field   13:3-9 4:3-9 8:4-8   Only a good heart can grow
  23.  The Sower explained   13:18-23 4:10-20 8:9-15   Plant the word and nurture it
  24.  Tares in field (part 1)   13:24-30       Certain final judgment
  25.  Tares in field (part 2)   13:36-43       Good honored, Evil cast out
  26.  Growing seed     4:26-29     Remain true growing sure
Have faith in coming judgment
  27.  Mustard seed   13:31-32 4:30-32 13:18-19   Grow ably to give others rest
  28.  Leaven   13:33   13:20-21   Grow until you become whole
  29.  Hidden treasure   13:44       Value God Unconditionally
  30.  Pearl of great price   13:45-46       Desire salvation above all
  31.  Net of fish   13:47-50       Final judgment will separate
all, evil purged and good kept
  32.  Householder   13:52       Know God's truth extensively
  33.  Blowing wind         3:8 God bestows freedom in Spirit
  Truth mingles where it will  
  34.  Field ripe for harvest         4:35-38   Reap in the delivered truth  
  35.  Bread of life         6:31-38 Sufficiency of God
  36.  Freedom from sin in Son           8:34-36   His adoption grants inheritance  
  37.  Blind leading the blind   15:14-20 7:15-23 6:39 9:39-41 Outward defilements reject
the inward desire for God
  38.  Good shepherd         10:1-18 Loyalty to the Word
  39.  Vine and branches         15:1-17 Devotion to be closer to God
  40.  Good Samaritan       10:25-37     Always be ready to show mercy  
  41.  Friend at midnight       11:5-10   Always ask God for help
  42.  Humbled guest       14:7-11   Live humbly, exalt others
  43.  Feast invitations       14:12-14   Expect no return for goodness
  44.  Dinner guests       14:15-24   Don’t put off God
  45.  Unprepared builder       14:28-30   Plan to withstand difficulties
  46.  King's war plans       14:31-33   Consider God as one’s all
  47.  Lost sheep   18:12-14   15:4-7   A repenting soul echoes joy
  48.  Lost coin       15:8-10   Each soul is of great value
  49.  Prodigal son       15:11-32   Either ungrateful or dissipated
return humbly to the Father
  50.  Unjust steward       16:1-13   We should sensibly plan for
spiritual over carnal rewards
before opportunity runs out
 
  51.  Rich man & Lazarus       16:19-31   Repent, show mercy or else
  52.  Servant's duty       17:7-10   God owes none, serve Him
  53.  Unjust judge       18:1-8   Though injustice exists, grow
not weary in your prayers
  54.  Pharisee & tax collector       18:9-14   Beware of self-importance
  55.  Unmerciful servant   18:21-35       Show mercy, forgive others
  56.  Ten Minas       19:11-27   Submit, apply the will of God
  57.  Laborers in vineyard   20:1-16       Never to late to be in the faith
  58.  Two sons   21:28-32       Hear, believe, repent, - to God
  59.  Landowner   21:33-46 12:1-12 20:9-18   Prophets to Son slain, submit
to God else face destruction
  60.  Marriage feast   22:1-14       Call for all to be prepared
  61.  Budding fig tree   24:32-35 13:28-32 21:29-33   Fullness of God has arrived
  62.  Alert servants     13:33-37     Beware, awake to the Lord
  63.  Wise steward/servant   24:45-51   12:42-48   Honor God firmly loyal with
proven responsibility or else
Beware of sudden judgment
 
  64.  Ten virgins   25:1-13       Prepare for coming judgment
  65.  Ten talents   25:14-30       Do not hide God given gifts
  66.  Sheep and goats   25:31-46       Good returns, Evil departs
Many parables have multiple inferences and not all are cross-referenced in this list.

"... God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do."
~ Jeremiah 42:3




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