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Stories with Intent: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

Stories with Intent offers pastors and students an accessible and comprehensive guide to Jesus’ parables. Klyne Snodgrass explores in vivid detail the context in which these stories were told, the purpose they had in Jesus’ message, and the ways they have been interpreted by the church and modern scholarship. While holding a consciously evangelical approach, Snodgrass deals throughout with a...

when explicit questions are not present, parables are intended to answer questions. Finding the implied question a parable addresses is key in interpretation. Often Jesus’ parables come as a response to a statement someone else makes. The intent of parables is to force thought, usually new and unexpected thought, so as to gain insight and bring about response. A number of parables end with the statement “Let the person who has ears to hear hear” or something similar, which is a call to move past
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