It must be plainly said that the parables were designed to put some people's light out…As we have already noted, Jesus' parables never appealed to people who knew it already. They simply served to put out the little light that such folk had, but that was all right because the Lord was not calling them anyway, and the time had come by the third year of his public ministry to drive off the eternal critics, the curiosity seekers, the unthinking hangers-on who had no real interest in the kingdom of God.
Glimpses of Eternity—Studies in the Parables of Jesus by Paul Earnhart
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