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Parable

A short story based on a familiar experience that teaches a spiritual lesson.

Jesus often taught in parables. Mt 13:10 “Then the disciples came and said to him, ’Why do you speak to them in parables?’ And he answered them, ’To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.’”

Jesus did this to teach particularly those who accepted him as God’s Messiah. Revised Standard Version.

Parable	Matthew	Mark	Luke
The children who play	11:16-19		7:31-35
The two debtors			7:41-43
The sower	13:3-8	4:3-8	8:5-8
The good Samaritan			10:25-37
The seed growing secretly		4:26-29
The importunate friend			11:5-8
The tares	13:24-30, 36-43
The rich fool			12:16-21
The mustard seed	13:31, 32	4:30-32
The barren fig tree			13:6-9
The leaven	13:33		13:20, 21
The hidden treasure	13:44
The pearl of great price	13:44, 45
The dragnet	13:47, 48
The lost sheep	18:12-14
The unmerciful servant	18:23-25
Laborers in the vineyard	20:1-6
The prodigal son	21:28-32		15:11-32
The wicked husbandman	21:33-44	12:1-11	20:9-18
The marriage feast	22:1-14		14:16-24
The last place at banquets			14:7-11
The tower and war			14:28-32
The lost sheep			15:4-7
The lost silver piece			15:8-10
The unjust steward			16:1-8
Dives (rich man) and Lazarus (beggar)			16:19-31
The unjust judge			18:1-8
The Pharisee and the publican			18:9-14
The ten virgins	25:1-13
The pounds	25:14-30		19:12-27
Thirty different parables	16 in Matthew	4 in Mark	20 in Luke

St. John’s Gospel has no parables.

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