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The Parables is a clearly written introduction to the parables of Jesus. After introducing the various forms of parables found in the Synoptic Gospels and the principles of interpretation, Simon Kistemaker examines the parables individually, including the entire text of each parable, followed by his commentary. Kistemaker gives careful attention to the historical and cultural setting of each...

immediately. He takes no other course of action for the moment. The king hopes that the guests have changed their minds and will now accept his invitation. The invited guests, however, have had no change of heart. They go about their own business, ignoring the king’s messengers. When the messengers press home the urgency of the royal invitation, they shower them with contempt and ridicule and do not hesitate even to kill them.6 Jesus is relating Israel’s history, and his audience understands that
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