Mathew 13 Parables

Mathew 13 contains seven parables told in one day in a series all starting with the phrase, “The Kingdom of God is like ……” These are generally known as the Kingdom Parabales. The hermeneutics that apply to these parables goes beyond the basic parable interpretations because we have the interpretations of Jesus himself for some of them.
I have ventured to correlate the growth of the Church with these parables. The strange fact is that it does fit.