What is the name of short stories told by Jesus?

Answer 1

They are called parables.

A parable an illustration that puts something familiar alongside something unfamiliar. A parable is similar to a fable or an allegory or a proverb but parables are generally concerned with spiritual matters.

Jesus used parables as a teaching method to teach the people who followed him about, for example, the kingdom of heaven. He spoke in parables so that only those who were sincere would see the truth contained in them.

Answer 2

The short stories that Jesus are called parables. The parables are recorded in the four Gospels and referenced to in the rest of the New Testament. Usually his parables took something that people of that time understood well (such as farming or fishing) and used it to convey a spiritual meaning.

Answer 3

The Scripture says that Jesus spoke in parables. These stories easily related something the common people of the time could easily relate to like agriculture, family, rich/poor people.

But some were not easily understood by the masses as was the intent - to veil or hide the deeper meaning from the well educated, usually rich or well off, proud people - as God the Father willed.

A future time will come when all Scripture will be opened up for all to fully understand as it will be written upon each heart, no longer requiring/depending upon someone else to interpret it for them.

Answer 4

Jesus regularly taught in what are called parables.

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Answer 6

They are called parables, as in the parable of the Good Samaritan or the parable of the Prodigal Son.

Answer 7

Those instructive stories are called parables.

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