Jesus was a master storyteller, and the parables he told were ingeniously simple word pictures. Some were no more than fleeting remarks about commonplace incidents, objects or people - the most compact of all his short stories does not even fill a complete verse of Scripture.

Yet all of them were filled with the profound spiritual lessons he wanted his listeners to hear and understand, told so that they would clearly comprehend his message about the kingdom of God and the reason he had come to earth. This workbook takes the major parables in turn with questions for study, suited to a group working through them over several weeks.