id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt p8418k74x47 Justin David Strong The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke: Their Form, Origins, and Implications 2019 .txt text/plain 393 15 51 The fable provides an answer to why Luke can depict a first-century Jewish figure as teaching in parables and it also resolves lighter matters, such as whether the parables attributed to Jesus are intended to make us laugh. Most New Testament scholars view it as axiomatic that the historical Jesus taught in parables. cache/p8418k74x47.txt txt/p8418k74x47.txt