![He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.](/assets/img/quote-photos/he-jesus-speaks-in-parables-and-though-we-have-approached-these-parables-rever.jpg)
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