From 1385464bf01afb03e7ed148c156f277d9047b811 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Susan Quigley Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 19:49:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Issue 64 JITL Headings and Content --- translate/figs-parables/01.md | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/translate/figs-parables/01.md b/translate/figs-parables/01.md index b7be3d8..bcec9dd 100644 --- a/translate/figs-parables/01.md +++ b/translate/figs-parables/01.md @@ -1,21 +1,22 @@ -A parable is a short story that makes truth easy to understand and hard to forget. ### Description A parable is a short story that is told to teach a truth. Though the events in a parable could happen, they did not actually happen. They are told only to teach a truth. Parables rarely contain the names of specific people. (This may help you identify what is a parable and what is an account of a real event.) Parables often have figures of speech such as simile and metaphor. ->Then he also told them a parable. "Can a blind person guide another blind person? If he did, they would both fall into a pit, would they not?" (Luke 6:39 ULB) - -This parable teaches that if a person does not have spiritual understanding, he cannot help someone else to understand spiritual things. ### Examples from the Bible +The parable below teaches that if a person does not have spiritual understanding, he cannot help someone else to understand spiritual things. + +>Then he also told them a parable. "Can a blind person guide another blind person? If he did, they would both fall into a pit, would they not?" (Luke 6:39 ULB) + +The parable below teaches us not to hide the way we live for God from other people. + >Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but rather, on the lampstand, and it shines for everyone in the house. Let your light shine before people in such a way that they see your good deeds and praise your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:15-16 ULB) -This parable teaches us not to hide the way we live for God from other people. ->Then Jesus presented another parable to them. He said, "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. This seed is indeed the smallest of all seeds. But when it has grown, it is greater than the garden plants. It becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches." (Matthew 13:31-32 ULB) +The parable below teaches that the kingdom of God may seem small at first, but it will grow and spread throughout the world. -This parable teaches that the kingdom of God may seem small at first, but it will grow and spread throughout the world. +>Then Jesus presented another parable to them. He said, "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. This seed is indeed the smallest of all seeds. But when it has grown, it is greater than the garden plants. It becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches." (Matthew 13:31-32 ULB) ### Translation Strategies