Why Christ Used Parables - Herbert W Armstrong - June 06, 1979

Herbert W Armstrong

My friends, why is it that Jesus spoke in parables so that the people could not understand? Now, we've always supposed, of course, most people have, that the reason that Jesus Christ spoke in parables was to make the meaning more clear - to sort of illustrate it so people would understand better. But we've been seeing that He did exactly the opposite - but why? Why did He not want those people to understand? And now, in Matthew the thirteenth chapter and the tenth verse after Jesus had spoken the Parable of the Sower and the Seed the people didn't understand it and the disciples didn't understand it. And so the disciples came, they came privately to Jesus and they said to Him, "Why speakest thou unto them in parables?" - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library