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Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.

While the people were listening to this, Jesus proceeded to tell them a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they thought the kingdom of God would appear imminently.

He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that,‘though seeing, they may not see;though hearing, they may not understand.’

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.