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WSB STUDY · THE PARABLES · TEN SESSIONS

The Parables

Forty Stories, One Door

Jesus never told a story with a pre-selected character. The claim is checkable, so this study checks it: ten sessions through the stories themselves, from Nathan’s trap to the open door on the last page of the Book.

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THE WALK, TEN SESSIONS

SESSION 12 Samuel 12:1-7
The Trap That Only Catches Free MenA trap only catches a free man, and the God of the parables keeps setting traps whose spring is mercy.
SESSION 2Matthew 22:1-10
The Will WordOne instance is word choice. Forty stories of the same choice is doctrine.
SESSION 3Matthew 21:28-31
Three Things A Script Cannot SurviveThe author who decreed the elder brother's answer would have written it. This author left the pen in his hands.
SESSION 4Matthew 25:31-46
The Broken MirrorTwo destinations were furnished before the world began. Only one of them was furnished for you.
SESSION 5Matthew 12:22-32
The Lock And The KeyYou do not lock a door that cannot open.
SESSION 6Luke 8:4-15
The Sower: Conditions, Not CastesSoils are conditions, not castes, and the sower keeps sowing because every field can be plowed.
SESSION 7Matthew 22:1-14
The Wedding Feast: Called And ChosenThe outside of the door says whosoever will. The inside says chosen before the foundation of the world. Nobody reads the inside of a door before walking through it.
SESSION 8Matthew 13:24-30
The Tares: An Enemy Hath Done ThisThe master sowed one field's worth of seed, and all of it was good. The other sower worked at night.
SESSION 9Matthew 20:1-16
The Census WalkForty stories, one shape: wide invitation, real response, and not one answer written in advance.
SESSION 10Numbers 21:4-9
The DoorHe told forty stories about a door, and then he became it.

How it works: each session runs three days, look, divide, and choose, with a depth dial (Stream, Well, Deep) that hides layers without ever deleting them. You answer from the text first. At Well and Deep the fork opens, where the strongest form of the other reading sits beside the one this study holds, so you can weigh them yourself. The long form of the argument, with the full census of every parable, is in the essay Jesus Never Told a Calvinist Parable. Free, no account required to read.