Parables

Pastor and teacher John MacArthur helps readers understand Jesus' parables and how they relate to His complete message. Jesus was a master storyteller, and the parables He told were ingeniously simple word pictures with profound spiritual lessons. Understanding the parables is crucial for followers of Jesus. Jesus told parables so that His people could clearly understand His message about the kingdom of God.

Many summarize that Jesus told parables to make His teaching simple, accessible, and comfortable in order to reach the widest possible audience. The reality is that Jesus spoke in parables to unbelievers not to make the truth clear, but to hide it from them as a judgment. The parables were symbols of our Lord's condemnation of those who had rejected His clear teaching.

Master expositor and biblical commentator John MacArthur has spent a lifetime explaining God's Word in clear and understandable terms. In this book, he helps Christians understand the essential lessons contained in the most famous and influential short stories the world has ever known.

"After forty years of faithful pastoral ministry, John MacArthur has proven to be a reliable guide through the Scriptures and a faithful expositor of the Word of God. This new book, Parables, is a profound biblical, theological, and devotional treatise on our Lord's parables" R. Albert Mohler Jr, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

"No one in this generation has made a more heroic and consistent defense of the authority and inspiration of Scripture than John MacArthur. I consider him one of the finest biblical expositors of our day. Few have given such careful attention to interpreting the words of Jesus in the Gospels. I wholeheartedly recommend Parables as a landmark achievement from a beloved and skilled pastor" Dr. R.C. Sproul, founder and president of Ligonier Ministries