What Does Jesus's Parables About Himself Do to His Contemporaries?

This reading of, and what was that parable? Where was that at? Luke chapter 19. Yeah. So one thing that this did to the parable, which is interesting to me, is it made it less mysterious or less like a riddle. And I think that's because we haven't taken the last step yet, which is to ask, how do Jesus's parables about himself given to his contemporaries? How does Jesus's story and those parables, how do they speak to people who aren't sitting there in that moment?"