The Purpose of the Parables of Jesus

The Jewish people believed that from among them would come a leader, the Messiah, who would bring Israel and the whole world into a new age of peace and prosperity. And Jesus claimed that he was that Messiah. He preached about a loving and forgiving father whose ethic seemed upside down. If you don't accept my way, which is the way of radical forgiveness and reconciliation, you're going to go down the way of the rebels. Both of those are going to lead to Jerusalem's destruction.