The second in a series of parables Jesus used to teach about the Second Coming. His servants/disciples need to be faithful and use what they have been given for the Kingdom of God.

Continuing in the dialogue with the religious leaders Jesus tells this parable to show that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from the Jews and others will enter. Jesus is the cornerstone they rejected.

Jesus told a parable to teach the importance of investing in eternity and not to think we can determine our happiness through materialism.

Jesus uses things highly valued and understood by the Jewish listeners to explain that the Kingdom of God is worth paying a high price for.

Jesus uses another agricultural parable to teach that at the same time as the Kingdom of God is growing, so too the power of evil. Ultimately, the victory will come at the Second Coming.