Peculiar Parables 5-Week Elementary and Preschool CurriculumTheme: Parables Of Jesus Jesus parables can be hard to understand for a variety of reasons. Some of them are allegorical, so that almost every element of the story is heavily symbolic. Some of them are specific to a singular point, and require us to ignore certain comparisons. For example, our first story in this series seems to portray God as a self serving, merciless, judge. What they all have in common is that they contain hidden treasures of