A couple weeks ago we looked at Jesus’s parable of the good Samaritan and learned that we should love our neighbor, especially when he is in great need. Then we looked at Jesus’s parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son. And we learned that, like God, we should rejoice when someone repents and receives God’s forgiveness. Today we will look at the parable of the unforgiving servant. In the next lesson we will look at the parable of the laborers in the vineyard. That’s a lot of parables, isn’t it? Why did Jesus teach so often with these short stories? Thankfully, Jesus answers that question. He says that he taught in parables to reveal and conceal. To reveal means to make something known that was hidden; to conceal means to hide or cover something up. To those who want to be Jesus’s disciples and to whom God gives ears to hear and understand, Jesus’s parables show us great truths about God’s kingdom. To those who don’t want to be disciples, parables fall on deaf ears. They cannot hear. They do not listen. God’s truth is hidden. For today’s parable let’s ask God to open our ears and our eyes!