Luke 19:11 – 27

When Jesus, returning from Jericho came near to Jerusalem, He told a parable to teach His disciples, that the Kingdom of God would not appear immediately. He spoke of a noble man going to a far-off country to receive kingly power and then return.

Luke 15.

The parable of the lost sheep, coin and son was taught by Jesus, to reveal the heart of a loving God for the lost. The lost sheep did not know that it was lost nor knew its way back to the shepherd; the coin was lost within the house but the prodigal son of a loving father was willfully lost!

Luke chapters 15, 16

The three parables of Jesus that Dr. Luke recorded for his readers – the prodigal son, the dishonest steward and the story of the rich man and Lazarus, have something in common that links all the three together. The younger son wasted his father’s money, the steward wasted his employer’s money and the rich man wasted his own money to lose his own soul.

Matthew 22:1-14

Matthew recorded this parable of Jesus having the Jews in mind, while Luke addressed the similar parable to a gentile audience in Luke 14: 15 – 24.

Matthew 13: 24 – 30

The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.