meaning of the parables

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ggs7

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Jesus spoke a number of parables.

In Luke 12:41 "Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?"

And in Matthew 21:45 "And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. "

So my question is, are ALL the parables directed at and spoken to believers/unbelievers (someone?), or only some , or none?
 
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I think he speaks them directly to someone but everyone is able to hear/read it and learn from it regardless of who he was speaking too.
 
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The parables seem mainly to be talking about the relationship between God and people.
Analogies are drawn and judgement given to what happens.

The reason they are so open ended is so that those who see the situations into which they apply can use them, while to others they appear as odd stories which have not application.

I have loved them also because they hold a lot of truth at many levels, depending on how you apply them.
 
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Here is the mention of a single parable in the Paalm

Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable:
I will utter dark sayings of old:

Mark 12:10-11 And have ye not read this scripture;
The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

Mark 12: 12 And ... they knew that he had spoken the parable against them
and they left him, and went their way.

He shows his own rejection through the things of old

God spake by the ministry of the prophets using similitudes

Hosea 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets,
and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

And God spake by Jesus Christ using parables (uttering the dark sayings of old)

1 Cr 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

Not sure if that will help any, one speaks of opening his saying upon the harp also.

Thats interesting.

 
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Mark 4:11 Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God but unto them THAT ARE WITHOUT, all things are done in parables. That seeing they may see not perceive and hearing they may hear and not understand.
 
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"Parables are told only because they are true, not because the actions of the characters in them can be recommended for imitation. Good Samaritans are regularly sued. Fathers who give parties for wayward sons are rightly rebuked, Employers who pay equal wages for unequal work have labor-relations problems. And any Shepherd who makes a practice of leaving ninety-nine sheep to chase after a lost one quickly goes out of the sheep-ranching business.

The parables are true only because they are like what God is like, not because they are models for us to copy. It is simply a fact that the one thing we dare not under any circumstances imitate is the only thing that can save us. The parables are, one and all, about the foolishness by which Grace raises the dead. They apply to no sensible process at all - only to the divine insanity that brings everything out of nothing.”

― Robert Farrar Capon
 
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ggs7 said:
Jesus spoke a number of parables.

In Luke 12:41 "Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?"

And in Matthew 21:45 "And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. "

So my question is, are ALL the parables directed at and spoken to believers/unbelievers (someone?), or only some , or none?
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The multitudes were not given to understand, including the spiritually blind scribes and Pharisees.

Those in Christ are given to understand all of them, according to each person's faith.
 
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FreeNChrist said:

"Parables are told only because they are true, not because the actions of the characters in them can be recommended for imitation. Good Samaritans are regularly sued. Fathers who give parties for wayward sons are rightly rebuked, Employers who pay equal wages for unequal work have labor-relations problems. And any Shepherd who makes a practice of leaving ninety-nine sheep to chase after a lost one quickly goes out of the sheep-ranching business.

The parables are true only because they are like what God is like, not because they are models for us to copy. It is simply a fact that the one thing we dare not under any circumstances imitate is the only thing that can save us. The parables are, one and all, about the foolishness by which Grace raises the dead. They apply to no sensible process at all - only to the divine insanity that brings everything out of nothing.”

― Robert Farrar Capon
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Oooh, I really like that quote! Thanks for sharing. :)
 
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