The Parabolic Teaching of Christ: A Systematic and Critical Study OF THE PARABLES OF OUR LORD

In an early chapter of his Gospel Luke tells of a discourse delivered by Jesus in the synagogue of Nazareth on the Acceptable Year of the Lord, and records that His hearers wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth.That scene was thoroughly congenial to the taste of the Pauline Evangelist, and he took it out of its historical connection and put it in the forefront of his narrative of our Lord's public ministry, assigning to it the same place in his Gospel which is occupied by the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's, that he might introduce Christ to his readers at the very outset as the preacher of glad tidings.