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do you do When Jesus taught using parables as he sometimes did, some who listened were confused.

Others understood.

There were still others who were offended.

Today on Truth for Life will examine a parable

that casts scrutiny on the religious leaders in Jesus Day, a group that was more accustomed to

judging than to looking in the mirror.

Alistairbegg is teaching from Chapter 12 in Mark's Gospel.

And the chief priests and the scribes heard and were seeking a way to destroy him for they feared him because all the

crowd was astonished at his teaching and they were left as we saw at the end of Chapter 11, just sort of shame-facedly looking at one another

and realizing what a dreadful mess they had made of things.

Then Mark tells us that Jesus immediately went on the offensive.

They had come to challenge him and as he has them in that posture,

he then proceeds to tell them a story, to tell them a parable.

And when verse one says, and he began to speak to them in parables,

what Mark is saying is that this was the manner of his approach. He decided on this occasion to tell them a story

that was allegorical, that they would be able to get an understanding of, and his purpose in doing so was not to cloud the issue but was to clarify the issue.

He is telling this story because he recognizes the importance of people coming to understand it.

So what I'd like to do in the time that we have is to look first of all at the parable,

consider then the punchline, consider then the punchline and then make a note of what I'm going to refer to as the postscript.

This may seem strange to us on first reading because it seems so far removed from the environment in which

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