“In the history of mankind there was no other teacher who used the parable genre as widely and consistently as Jesus Christ did. The parables were spoken by Jesus in a specific historical context, but their meaning goes far beyond it. Their meaning is universal, and two thousand years later they sound as original and expressive as they did to His contemporaries, plunging the reader’s mind into the bottomless depths of faith,” — Hilarion (Alfeev), Metropolitan of Volokolamsk.