My essay will show you about Jesus" teaching of the kingdom of god to the disciples and the people through parables (short story with a religious meaning to help get a message across to other) and miracles (something that appears impossible but turns out to be done). A famous parable that Jesus used was about a sower (MK4:3-20) who planted seeds in 4 types of grounds, which were footpath, rocky, weed and soil. ... Another parable used by Jesus was the mustard seed (MK4:30-32), which is in relation to the people of the kingdom of God where it started of so small, like a mustard seed, and ...

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But their messages are very different: Christ told parables to teach His followers about the kind of life they would have to live to enter the Kingdom of God; Santiago tells stories of Joe DiMaggio to pass on to Manolin his vision, his fishing skills, and his memories. ...

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In the early fourteenth century, Dante Alighieri wrote his masterpiece. "The poem is a narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God (Cary, 4)". The Divine Comedy is viewed as a poem of grandeur that defies any classification (Critical Survey, 1230). The poem was so named because Dante wrote it in Italian, the "vulgar" language. Also because the poem begins in despair and ends in pure bliss (Witt 325). ...

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