Study of Parables
There are parables identified in these two areas of the Bible.
What are the Old and New Testaments?
In the parable of the Sower the seeds represent
What is the "Word of God"?
In this parable the sower represents
Who is Jesus?
How many times should we forgive someone
What is Up to 70 x 7?
Using metaphors and similes the parables compare the known world to
What is the Spiritual World?
The soil in this parable is
What is the heart of the people?
In this parable the field represents
What is the world?
The reason we should forgive each other
What is because God forgives us?
The parables have the unusual ability to
What is reveal and conceal?
In this parable the birds represent
What is the devil?
The tares were not pulled out from the wheat due to-
Why does the tare root system intertwine with the wheat roots?
The two things that are required for forgiveness:
What is repentance and cleansing by blood?
What is the most important thing about the parables?
Who is Jesus, the person who told them.
The seed on the rocky soil represents
What is those who hear the message and receive it with joy, but since they don't have deep roots they don't last long.
Tares represented
What are evil (bad) people or false prophets? They can be identified by their fruits.
ten thousand talents and a hundred denarii
What were the two amounts that the servants owed?
Instead of using theological jargon, Jesus used parables to do this.
What is simplify deep spiritual truths?
The seed that fell on good soil represents
Who are those who truly hear and understand God's word and produce fruit?
The harvest represents
What is the end of the age? Divine Judgement
The fellow servants represent
What is the community of believers?