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Parable — Bible Term Explained | fresh.bible

Parable

A story Jesus told to teach a spiritual truth through everyday situations

lightbulbPara-BALL — Jesus throwing a story alongside the truth so it hits different

Definition

Short stories using familiar scenarios (farming, weddings, money) to illustrate deeper truths about God's kingdom. Jesus used them so those genuinely seeking would understand.

Used In72 mentions across 13 books

2 chronicles

The Enemies Who Became Neighbors

2 Chronicles 28:12-15

The Parable of the Good Samaritan is invoked as a future echo of this moment — these northern Israelites are literally doing what Jesus would later describe as the model of neighbor-love.

2 samuel

The Woman with a Story

2 Samuel 14:1-3

Parable signals the deliberate narrative strategy at work — just as Nathan's lamb story trapped David into self-judgment, the Tekoan woman's fiction is a parable designed to do the same.

ezekiel

Two Eagles, a Vine, and a Promise

Turn and Live

Ezekiel 18:30-32

The Sword Comes Out

The Corroded Pot

Your Assignment, Ezekiel

hosea

The Price of Buying Her Back

isaiah

The Crown That's About to Fall

john

The Night He Told Them Everything

The Witness

judges

The Thornbush King

luke

The Story That Changed the Question

Ask. Seek. Knock.

The Man Who Built Bigger Barns

The Tree That Was Running Out of Time

The Dinner Party That Changed Everything

The Money Chapter Nobody Wants to Read

Servants Who Don't Expect a Trophy

mark

The Day Nobody Could Outsmart Him

The Day Everything Went Dark

Seeds, Secrets, and a Storm Nobody Saw Coming

The Chapter Where Everything Accelerates

The Part Nobody Wanted to Hear

matthew

Why Stories Instead of Straight Answers

Matthew 13:10-17

The Shepherd Who Can't Stop Looking

Matthew 18:10-14

Same Pay, Different Hours

Matthew 20:1-16

The King Who Showed Up Wrong

The Invitation Nobody Wanted

The Seven Things That Made Jesus Furious

Two Kinds of Waiting

Matthew 24:45-51

song of solomon

A Love Song With Nothing to Hide

Altogether Beautiful

Every Part of You

zechariah

The Shepherd Nobody Wanted

zephaniah

He Means Everything

Zephaniah 1:2-6