Parables of Jesus
Lang's study of Jesus's use of parables in His teaching, explaining how these stories were suited to His oriental audience, arrested attention, aroused thought, and preserved truth. He argues that the parables remain unrivaled in literature and bear the mark of unique genius.
91 Chapters
Table of Contents
1
00.00 Preface
2
00.00 The use of parables in the teaching of Jesus
3
01.00 The Sower
4
01.02 The seed is the word
5
01.03 The wayside soil
6
01.04 The thin-surfaced soil
7
01.05 The choked soil
8
01.06 The good soil
9
02.00 The Mustard Seed and the Leaven
10
02.01 The characteristics of the kingdom
11
02.02 The mustard seed
12
02.03 The leaven
13
02.04 The kingdom in the soil
14
02.05 The kingdom in the world
15
03.00 The Hid Treasure and Pearl of Great Price
16
03.01 The truth possessed
17
03.02 The truth attained by sacrifice
18
03.03 The nature of the sacrifice
19
03.04 The hid treasure
20
03.05 The treasure at our feet
21
03.06 The treasure found and hidden
22
03.07 The pearl of great price
23
03.08 The quest of the pearl
24
03.09 The value of the pearl
25
04.00 The Ten Virgins
26
04.01 The divine advent
27
04.02 The lamp an outward sign
28
04.03 The inwad spirit
29
04.04 The times of sleep
30
04.05 The awakening
31
04.06 The exhausted oil
32
04.07 Vain is the help of man
33
04.08 The close of opportunity
34
05.00 The Talents
35
05.01 The strict account
36
05.02 The use of natural gifts
37
05.03 The use of spiritual endowments
38
05.04 The use of opportunites of service
39
05.05 The labour not in vain
40
06.00 The Good Samaritan
41
06.01 Who is my neighbor?
42
06.02 The spirit of neighbourliness
43
06.03 Priest and Samaritan
44
06.04 Unselfish service
45
06.05 Thorough service
46
06.06 Personal service
47
07.00 The Barren Fig Tree
48
07.01 The divine disappointment
49
07.02 Conventional Christianity
50
07.03 The pleading of Christ
51
07.04 Abiding in Christ
52
08.00 The Unjust Steward
53
08.01 A story of worldly acuteness
54
08.02 God or Mammon
55
08.03 The secret of religious success
56
08.04 The use of the mammon of unrighteousness
57
08.05 A discipline of fidelity
58
08.06 A friend in the eternal tabernacles
59
09.00 The Unprofitable Servants
60
09.01 The sense of duty
61
09.02 The limitations of the sense of duty
62
09.03 The need of an inward ideal
63
09.04 The infinite claim of God
64
09.05 The perfect sense of duty
65
10.00 The Friend at Midnight and the Unjust Judge
66
10.01 From man to God
67
10.02 The justice of God
68
10.03 The fatherhood of God
69
10.04 The importunity of prayer
70
10.05 The need of intercessory prayer
71
10.06 The cry of the tempted
72
10.07 The cry of the church militant
73
11.00 The Pharisee and the Publican
74
11.01 The sense of sin
75
11.02 Our Lord's treatment of sin
76
11.03 God as law
77
11.04 God as Life
78
11.05 God as Love
79
12.00 The Prodigal Son
80
12.01 The gospel within the gospel
81
12.02 The departure from home
82
12.03 The sojourn in the far country
83
12.04 The return
84
12.05 The reconciliation
85
12.06 The elder son
86
13.00 The Lost Sheep
87
13.01 The severity of the parables
88
13.02 The eternal compassion
89
13.03 The shepherd seeks
90
13.04 The shepherd finds
91
13.05 The shepherd rejoices
