Friday with Jacob - Parables of the Kingdom part 1

This teaching explains that Jesus’ parables should be understood through a first-century Jewish lens, not modern Western literary categories, because in Hebrew thought a parable (a mashal) is an everyday image that points to a deeper spiritual reality, a framework rooted in Proverbs 1:5–7 (especially 1:6), where wisdom is gained by discerning “proverbs and riddles” in the fear of the Lord; within this tradition, extended stories like those in Proverbs 5–7 (notably 7:6) function the same way a...