Some twelve similitudes appear in the Synoptic Gospels. Two examples of this type of parable are the following similitudes of the Lost Coin and the Growing Seed. In the first, God's love for the ...

(NIV) In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus told the story of a Jewish man walking from Jerusalem to Jericho. On the journey he was attacked by robbers and left for dead. Two Jewish ...