This updated edition includes a foreword by Philip Ryken and a section-by-section study guide.

Some move us to grateful responses to God. The parables ask us if there has been any real difference in our lives. — James Montgomery Boice The Parables of Jesus offers a scholarly yet simple explanation of all of Jesus’ parables.

Appended to the Montogmery text are the documents of the "justitia controversy," from the Boston newspapers of 1841, in which the merits & relative costs of steam & water power were debated.