0 Why did Jesus speak in parables?

Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity. Tobias 8:9

Trivia: What caused Tobit Sr.'s blindness?

Why did Jesus speak in parables?


So that people wouldn't understand

And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. Luke 8:9
And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. Luke 8:9

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