Luke is the only gospel writer who tells the parables of the prodigal son (15:11-32) and the good Samaritan (10:25-37). He alone tells us the stories of Mary and Martha (10:38-42) and of the ...

Parables were often used by Jewish rabbis who were contemporaries of Jesus. A famous and quite ancient ... Many of the similitudes in Luke's Gospel begin, "Which of you?" (e.g. Lk 11:5; 14:28 ...