Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.” David didn’t understand until Nathan clearly said, “You are the man!” (vv. 5–7). In this parable, Nathan came to David with judgment. He came in a moment of crisis. And this is one of the ways in which parables function so richly in the New Testament. The very word parable comes from two Greek words. Para- is a prefix that refers to something that