We need not say much here except that Brother Luke has supplied us with a repository of a good number of Jesus’ parables which we would not otherwise have. While we must delight in Matthew’s inspired placement of parables, we must also delight that Luke, as a careful historian, apparently sought out parables which others did not record.

Luke’s contexts sometimes vary a bit from Matthew’s. Nevertheless, there is a compelling contextual importance in Luke’s listings. Luke, much more than Matthew, has a focus on parables dealing with the JEWISH HARVEST — that intriguing and important change (especially in the mind of the early Church) from the Jewish Law Age into the Christian Gospel Age. Our understanding of many of the details of this Jewish Harvest come, of course, from Jesus, but greatly due to Luke’s efforts in recording parables specific to that event.