Mark now turns, for the moment, from the miracles of Jesus to the teaching of Jesus, by parables. One definition of a parable is that it is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning.
It is perhaps more accurate to say that a parable is a brief story told by way of comparison to present some central truth.
Jesus took the simple things of life, things with which all of his hearers were quite familiar, and used them to enforce profound and meaningful spiritual truths.
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