Hey, this is John at the Bible Project, and today on the podcast, we're going to continue

our conversation on how to read the parables of Jesus.

This is part two.

Last week, we began to talk about the parables and discuss how they're not simply moralistic

tales.

The parables of Jesus were a way to reframe how to think about the entire cosmos.

The parables are also about what Jesus saw Himself doing as the culmination of the entire

story of the Bible.

Today, we're going to continue talking about parables, and we're going to notice how telling

parables wasn't a novel thing that Jesus invented.

It was a practice that linked Him to a long line of Israel's prophets.

Jesus, through the parables, is presenting Himself as repeating and renewing both the warnings

of judgment and the warnings of hope from the Hebrew prophets.

So that's another primary contact.

And here particularly, it's His role as the minority prophet going to a new Pharaoh that

is the leaders of Israel, and His message is cryptic parables, the hardened as much as

they eliminate.

And that's how Jesus understood His role to Israel.

Today, we'll also begin to cover a few practical tips on how to appreciate the meaning of Jesus'

parables.

The basic narrative structure of all of the parables basically lives three types.

There's one main character parables, there's two main character parables, and then there's

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