Parables were often used by Jewish rabbis who ... if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls ...
How then will you understand all the parables? 14The sower sows the word ... 21And he said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not on a stand?