When someone hardens their heart against God, He has the right to remove the obstacles to their efforts. Hardened hearts, not cruelty, are why Jesus speaks in ...

Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not ...

One of the central themes of this verse is the idea of spiritual perception and understanding. Jesus is telling his disciples that they are privileged to have ...

22 дек. 2022 г. · Now here's Jesus, telling the people that God the father loves them, he teaches them to pray and He forgives sins indicating that He is God! He ...

17 мая 2015 г. · Through parables, He will tell them what the Kingdom of God is like. In these comparisons, they will hear, and relate, and imagine in terms and images.

10 Jesus answered, "Knowledge about the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given [directly] to you. But it is given to others in stories. When they look, ...

26 мая 2021 г. · Jesus preached to His fellow Jews in fulfillment of the promise made by God that the Messiah would come to save the people of Israel. Jesus knew ...

The disciples ask Jesus to explain the meaning of the Parable of the Sower. Rather than immediately giving them the desired explanation, Jesus first responds.

Jesus has been banished from the synagogues. The scribes and the Pharisees and the religious leaders are up against him. Inevitably the disciples would be ...

Luke 8:9-10 gives us the reason Jesus told parables. It was so that He could hide the truth from His listeners. If you are confused by the parables ...