Parables Are the Ideal Vehicle for Paradoxical and Dangerous Teachings

The parables belong substantially within the specific period of his public career and ministry as a prophet announcing judgment and renewal for israel. They are the ideal vehicle for the paradoxical and dangerous campaign that jesus is undertaking. His subversive message must be clothed in disguise which only the seeing eye will penetrate. It's actually the prophets going to a hardened israel, so that isaiah six, their message hardens the heart within the hebrew bible. That's all a developed design pattern on analogy to pharaoh.