“The What, Why & How of Jesus’ Parables (Matthew 13:1-3, 10-17)” Pastor Mel Caparros January 29, 2023 Sunday Service Jesus was a MASTER TEACHER and He knew how to use LANGUAGE and FIGURES of SPEECH to drive home a point and one of the pedagogies that He uses is the PARABLE. In some ways, many preachers and writers have caught the way Jesus teaches thereby using figures of speech or symbols to illustrate truth. _____________________ Join us this weekend in our In-Person Service. You may also watc

"Why Did Jesus Speak in Parables?" Matthew 13

But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. // Matthew 13:23 | Biblword

Matthew 13:1-9 New International Version The Parable of the Sower 13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It s