The Teaching and Learning Dynamic of Jesus

The word disciple means student. So imagine the disciples are like really good students who decide to stay after class to ask a teacher more questions. We think about what we want to become as disciples. We also want to be students. We want to be sticking around after the main lesson has been done and to ask more questions, to dig more deeply and to ponder and explore more fully. By the time we're done we're going to have eight of these listed out in chapter 13. And this is a potential crossing over point between Matthew and Luke. You can picture him sitting on this boat with the people on the shore as he now begins parable number one.