The Metaphors of Jesus

The Metaphors of Jesus, and the Real World Behind Each One

Jesus taught in pictures drawn from ordinary life: bread and seed, sheep and vines, salt and light, wells and harvests. To hear Him rightly you have to know the real thing first, how bread was actually made, how a vine was pruned, what a shepherd truly did. Each page below starts with the real craft His hearers knew, then opens what He means by it, and how the image reveals Him.

BreadJohn 6:35 The ShepherdJohn 10:11 The VineJohn 15:5 The DoorJohn 10:9 LightJohn 8:12 Living WaterJohn 4:14 The SeedJohn 12:24 SaltMatthew 5:13 The HarvestMatthew 9:37 The RockMatthew 7:24 The Mustard SeedMatthew 13:31

The I AM Sayings · The Parables · The Threads

More on his words and his self-revelationThe I AM Sayings The Hard Sayings Questions Jesus Asked The Conversations of God The Questions People Asked The Prayers of Jesus The Scriptures Jesus Quoted The Songs of the Bible The Sounds of the Bible The Names of Jesus The Warnings of Jesus The One Another Commands

See Christ in all of Scripture, the full map