Yeshua Explains Why He Speaks in Parables

My Heart is for Israel

To Be Like Yeshua Means – To Understand the Parables of the Kingdom

In my last post, we learned about the parable of the four soils.  In this post, Yeshua explains why He speaks in parables.

“Then the talmidim came and asked Yeshua, ‘Why are you speaking to them in parables?’  He answered, ‘Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it has not been given to them.  For anyone who has something will be given more, so that He will have plenty; but from anyone who has nothing, even what He does have will be taken away. Here is why I speak to them in parables: they look without seeing and listen without hearing or understanding.  That is, in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Yesha‘yahu which says, ‘You will keep on hearing but never understand, and keep on seeing but…

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