ILLUSTRATIONS
(See also Prophetic Patterns)
(Note centered heading below: Bible Illustrations)
analogies: be 257
Bible illustrations: it-1 1175-1178, 1184
architectural terms: it-1 161
how to understand: it-1 1176-1177; w14 12/15 6-7
purposes: it-1 1175-1176; gt chapter 43; w87 4/1 8-9
Witness explanations: w15 3/15 11
discussion: it-1 1174-1184
examples: w02 9/1 23
abandoning ship (one’s religion): w95 2/1 3
abhorrence for what is wicked like disgust for rotten food: w22.03 5
acquiring Bible truth like effort to get free bananas: w18.11 4
Adam and Eve began to die “in the day” of sinning as would a severed branch (Ge 5:5): g 6/06 29
Adam and Eve’s disobedience like pilot ignoring navigation instructions: w18.04 5-6
Adam and Eve slowly die like cut flowers: w18.12 20
angel became Devil like accountant who becomes thief: w11 3/1 21
anxiety like an anchor: w16.09 3
atmosphere prepared like cup of coffee: w16.09 30
attitudes and desires corrode as if by rust: w96 6/15 17, 19-20, 22
avoiding erotic images like avoiding flash from welder’s torch: w14 4/1 10-11
bad traits like rotten beams: w08 11/15 4
baptismal candidates like wood carved into basic shape: w08 11/15 3
being “born again” like non-native being adopted: w09 4/1 6, 10-11
benefits of discipline likened to way fruit matures: w07 3/1 19
Bible compared to outdated textbook: wp18.1 3
Bible guidance like Marshallese stick charts: w06 10/1 32
Bible guidance like that of a GPS or map: ypq 30
Bible inspired as businessman might author letter: w12 6/15 26-27
Bible like a flashlight: wp18.1 14
Bible like a fruit tree: g 3/10 28-29
Bible like an unscathed monument: wp18.1 4
Bible like a user’s manual: w13 12/1 4-5
Bible reading in haste like gulping down a delicious meal: w22.10 8
Bible reading like diet of heart-attack victim: w10 7/1 21
Bible reading like sea anchor: w00 8/15 32
Bible’s guidance like signposts: w98 10/1 32
Bible standards like speed limits: w22.10 8
Bible study like filling gas tank: w10 6/15 4-5
building up a family the way one builds a house: kl 140-141, 149
calling for help as if a stranded lamb: w02 3/1 16
change from Law Covenant to ‘law of Christ’ like change in nation’s constitution: w10 2/1 14
checking spirituality as if using pilot’s checklist: w13 3/15 13-14
choosing entertainment as if food: w19.10 30
choosing entertainment as if fruit: lvs 75-76; lv 62, 69-70
choosing entertainment like walking on mountain path: lvs 82
choosing reading material as if food: sg 20
Christendom like babysitter who neglects children to fix house: cf 186-187
Christian personalities like vehicles on road: kl 164
Christians keep free from world just as medical professionals avoid infection: w18.01 27
Christians like a skyscraper: w23.07 14
Christians like rough diamonds: w98 5/15 24-27
Christians like trees in a forest: w22.11 12-13
Christians like water-repellent diamonds: w95 12/15 27
communication like door, rusty or lubricated: w06 4/15 7
competition like cracks that weaken a clay vessel: w21.07 14
complaining spirit like tendency to rust: w06 7/15 16-17
confidence in Jehovah as in flight instruments: w96 5/1 21-24
conscience like a compass: w18.06 16; lv 14-15, 17; w09 8/15 19-20; g 8/08 27; w02 2/15 3, 5
conscience like a watchman: w19.01 17-18
conscience like navigational system: lvs 16-17; w01 11/1 3
conscience like warning lights: w05 10/1 14
control during stormy circumstances like a sailor’s: w08 7/15 31
conversation like game of catch: mwb18.09 8
coping with problems the way a tree bends in the wind: w01 2/1 28-29
coping with trials as with traffic: w14 4/15 30
counsel like friend stopping you from stepping into traffic: w20.11 21
cultivating fruitage of spirit as would a farmer: w10 3/15 15-16
daily reviewing Jehovah’s blessings like mountain climber taking in the view: w23.01 19
death like a flame going out: bh 59; w07 1/15 24
death of mate like uprooting intertwined tree roots: w19.06 23
dedication and baptism similar to marriage: w98 11/15 12
dedication like giving a car as a gift: w16.03 7
“deep things of God” like underwater coral reef: w07 11/1 27
deliverance from sin and death as from incurable disease: w09 9/15 25, 29
depression like the flu: ijwyp article 114
desire and greed likened to campfire and forest fire: w01 6/15 6
disciple-making like fishing: w19.07 18-19
discipline guides child like a rudder: g18.2 9
disciplining children like gardening: w14 7/1 10
disfellowshipping like isolating ailing sheep: w21.10 10-11
DNA like a recipe: w16.09 30-31
doubts creep in as through leaks: w96 5/1 22
drawing closer to Jehovah and spouse as if climbing a mountain: lv 121-123
drawing out people in ministry as would a doctor: w19.03 22
elderly honored as is Lone Cypress (California, U.S.A.): w10 5/15 6-7
elders’ ministry like piece of music: w97 8/1 18
elders train brothers as if caring for garden: w15 4/15 5-7, 9-10, 12
end of world like eviction of harmful tenants: w11 3/1 8-9
endurance and resignation likened to attitudes of two prisoners: cf 67
enduring to end like passenger swimming to shore: w16.04 17
eternal life like abundance of air: w04 11/15 5-6
evaluating world’s attractions as one would clothes: w03 4/15 12-13
evidence of God in creation like footsteps behind a door: w12 7/1 5
expressing convictions as if tossing a ball: w23.09 19
expressing feelings as if tossing a ball: g01 1/8 10; kl 144
faith like a living plant: w16.10 27
faith like water in desert: ia 206
faith like wood fire: w15 10/15 10
false religion like neighborhood contamination: bh 154
false worship like counterfeit money: bh 144-145; w08 2/15 19
faults of friends like raspberry seeds: w00 12/1 22
field ministry and internal ministry like two wings on bird: w09 1/15 14-15
field ministry like rescue work: w21.05 19; km 12/98 1
fight against sin like rowing upriver: w90 12/1 17
flowers that weather storms: w94 10/15 32
following Jesus’ footsteps as if following a guide: w21.04 2
forgiving others like cleaning heirloom: jr 152-153
friends are like eyeglasses: ijwyp article 114
friends are like two people in a car: g05 7/22 21
getting through last days as if canoeing through rapids: w97 4/1 4-5
gift of speech to be used like gift of a car: lv 133
glory from men obscures glory from Jehovah as city lights obscure starlight: w13 2/15 26
goals like blueprints: g18.2 15
God, like a parent, does not use Satan to punish ones he misled: w14 5/15 9-10
God’s spirit like sun’s rays: g 7/06 15
God’s spirit produces fruit as does rain on an orchard: w03 7/1 6
God superior to Jesus as father is to son: w14 5/15 9
good values like reliable compass: g18.2 10
gossip like scattering feathers: w11 7/15 19
gradually leaving truth like boat drifting: w18.11 9-10
growing to adulthood like ascending a stairway: g 4/08 27-28
happiness like good health routine: g18.1 3
heart like united or disunited sports team: w20.06 13
heart opened and closed as if by a gatekeeper: w19.01 17-18
helping an alcoholic (not giving in to family opposition): w95 10/1 9
helping one another as do elephants: w04 9/15 13
helping ourselves and others as if survivors of shipwreck: w97 1/15 22
helping weak as medical teams assist injured: w14 6/15 25
holding grudges like picking at a wound: w21.12 12
holding to Jehovah’s guidance as a child does a father’s hand: g96 11/8 26-27
holiday origins as important as where piece of candy was found: bh 159
holy spirit like wind for sailboat: w19.11 10-11; w10 3/15 18
humans like damaged factory machines: w95 1/15 4-6
illustrations are like a microphone: w22.01 13
illustrations turn ears into eyes: w22.01 12
imperfections like bulges in tire: w07 2/15 28
imperfections like surface defects of house: w08 3/15 27
imperfect perception like fogged eyeglasses: w22.02 3
improving preaching ability like playing guitar: w19.04 3
inactive ones like lost sheep: rj 4
influences like ocean undercurrents: g02 11/22 13
integrity like a mansion made of bricks of obedience: cf 65
integrity like plans for a house: w08 12/15 7
Jehovah, like a friend, does not ask us to carry loads too heavy: lvs 11; lv 11-12; w09 8/15 19
Jehovah, like a judge, has various aspects to his personality: w07 9/1 4-5
Jehovah, like a judge, is not cause of wrongdoers’ suffering: w03 9/1 11
Jehovah, like a judge, wipes repentant human’s record clean: w14 2/15 28
Jehovah, like an airline pilot, guides us through storms: w19.01 4-5
Jehovah, like a parent, appreciates gifts of his servants: w18.07 23; w07 2/1 17-18
Jehovah, like a parent, delights to see honesty: lvs 187; lv 160
Jehovah, like a parent, grants requests at best time: w15 4/15 25; w14 4/1 6
Jehovah, like a parent, inculcates good values: w18.11 19-20
Jehovah, like a parent, sees love in work offered: w05 12/1 12
Jehovah, like a parent, teaches us to walk: jd 133-134; w05 11/1 21; w05 11/15 28
Jehovah, like a rock climbing instructor, guides us: w14 6/15 30
Jehovah, like weather forecaster, warns others: w19.10 6
Jehovah and Jesus in creation like architect and builder: cf 131
Jehovah comforts us like a father comforting a frightened daughter: w24.01 25
Jehovah feels about obedience as would a human father: cf 56
Jehovah handles issues as would a family head: w07 9/15 6; kl 75-76; rs 429
Jehovah handles issues as would a schoolteacher: bh 110-112
Jehovah is touched by praise like a father praised by his little girl: w24.02 9
Jehovah like a friend who knows where you are and where each road leads: w23.08 8
Jehovah like a guide in a dangerous forest: w24.02 20
Jehovah like parents who love and care for defective child: w21.07 12-13
Jehovah looks for good qualities as if looking for gems: g 4/12 28
Jehovah looks for good qualities as if panning for gold: cl 245-246
Jehovah offers hand as would a father: w12 1/1 18
Jehovah offers hand as would a guide on a mountain trail: w04 12/15 17-18
Jehovah reaches purpose as traveler reaches destination: w11 5/15 21-22
Jehovah’s blessing like effect of wholesome food: w10 9/15 11
Jehovah’s love like a cord or rope: w20.06 27
Jehovah’s perspective like seeing aerial view: w12 11/15 3
Jehovah’s standards like guardrail on narrow mountain road: w21.12 23
Jehovah’s standards like protective bars of a lion cage: w24.03 3
Jehovah’s standards like those of automobile maintenance: jd 87-88
Jehovah’s thoughts become ours just as a child adopts parents’ thinking: w18.11 23
Jehovah to restore mankind as if work of art: cl 246; w90 2/15 22
Jehovah uses foreknowledge as one would use ability to sing: cl 178
Jehovah uses foreknowledge as one would use recorded TV program: w11 1/1 14
Jehovah uses visual aids as would a father: rr 42
Jesus and holy spirit act as would a tourist guide: kr 49
Jesus directs ministry as driver directs car: bt 127
Jesus’ followers to make disciples as would a farmer hiring harvesters: cf 87-88
Jesus fulfills Law as builder would fulfill contract: w10 2/1 13
Jesus like an archery instructor: w12 2/15 3
Jesus’ obedience under suffering like sword of hardened steel: cf 56-57
Jesus revealed Father to humans as transformer lowers voltage: w11 4/1 7
joy like flame in a lantern: w21.02 28
joy of ministry like providing for one’s family: w97 1/15 23-24
keeping thinking clean like cleaning one’s home: w23.01 8
knowledge, understanding, wisdom like reaction to seeing bus approaching: w14 12/15 7
learning about God like learning about one’s boss: ol 5
learning “grammar” of Bible principles: w95 6/15 18-21, 23
learning to love like learning a new language: w99 2/15 18, 22-23
life as Christ’s disciples like a journey: w15 2/15 10-11
life cycle of humans like that of animals: w97 2/15 10-11
life like priceless painting: w23.02 20
looking below the surface as a doctor does a patient: w20.04 14-15
love, like a campfire, must be fed: w23.05 20, 24
love, like a plant, needs nourishment and care: cf 132-133
love for Jehovah begins like an apple seed: bh 186-187
love for Jehovah like a fire that must be fed: w18.06 15
love for Jehovah revealed by love for brothers as pulse reveals health of heart: w23.11 9
love of money like itch from mosquito bite: g 4/06 5
lover of self like the hedgehog: w18.01 23
love within congregation like links in anchor chain: w07 1/1 9
loyalty sticks like burs on clothing: w05 9/1 4, 6-7
marriage, like automobile, lasts if maintained: w11 2/1 3
marriage commitment like anchor during storm: g18.2 4
marriage like a decorated house: lv 130, 132
marriage like intertwined tree roots: w19.06 23
marriage like teamwork of pilot and copilot: g18.2 5
marriage like trapeze artists or figure-skating partners: w01 5/15 16
married couple like two gardeners of same plot: w11 11/1 14
materialistic pursuits like strangler fig: w04 9/15 12
materialistic pursuits like working for counterfeit money: w17.07 11
meditating on Paradise like cleaning window having magnificent view: w06 10/1 28
meditation like carpenter’s activity: g 5/14 15
memories kept and discarded like photos: w23.11 12-13
mental permafrost: w93 8/15 15-16
mildness like a gentled horse: w23.09 15
modesty like little girl holding father’s hand in a storm: w03 8/15 22
money like a sharp knife: w10 11/15 5; yp2 155
money spending uncontrolled like driving blind: yp2 160-161
motivation like wind that moves sailboat: w23.05 27-29, 31
no disciple is made by one Christian as no plant is watered by one raindrop: w01 7/1 17
not handling differences like children: w00 8/15 24
not praying after sinning like lost pilot not contacting air traffic controllers: w06 9/1 30
obeying parents like paying debt to bank: g18.2 13
older Witnesses like natural diamonds: w21.09 2
one-parent family like rowboat with missing oarsman: yp2 210-211
overcoming obstacles to serving Jehovah like airplane taking off: w95 7/15 21-22, 24
painful correction like slaps in face to save hypothermic hiker: w15 4/15 31
parents compared to building contractor: w88 5/1 3-4
parents compared to pilot for ship captain: w04 10/15 20-24
parents raising children likened to archers shooting arrows: w13 8/15 17; w07 9/1 26, 30
passing over transgressions as if viewing them from an airplane: w99 10/15 15-16
persevering as does a musician: w23.09 21
personal differences like cracks in pavement: w08 11/15 17-18
personal study like selecting food at a buffet: w19.05 27
playing violent or immoral electronic games like playing with radioactive waste: yp2 249-250
poor spiritual feeding like malnutrition: w01 7/1 19-21
praising Jehovah as one would a talented friend: w05 6/15 24-25
prayer like a door: g 11/08 26-28
prayer like claiming gift at a store: w06 9/1 27-28
pride can harden heart like illness that hardens arteries: w22.01 10
prison like an X-ray: w22.06 23
publications like craftsman’s tools: km 7/15 3
putting on sweaters till not cold (praying till not scared): w95 10/1 18
questions or challenges are like icebergs: w23.09 16
races of mankind like bougainvillea flowers: w96 11/1 32
ransom like being rescued from drowning: w16.03 11
ransom like being rescued from mine: w08 3/1 3, 6-7
ransom like being rescued from sinking ship: cl 158, 161
ransom like benefactor relieving debt of victims of corrupt bank: w10 8/15 14
ransom like benefactor rescuing bankrupt factory: cl 143; w91 2/15 13
ransom like grandfather paying off son’s debt: rs 308
ransom like water for washing dirty hands: w16.05 19
rejecting evil things as by reflex: w08 3/15 24
respectful speech like mortar holding marriage together: g18.2 6
restoring mankind as one would a damaged house: w10 5/1 4-6
restoring relationships humbly as if going from mountaintop to valley: w96 9/15 23
resurrected ones on earth like immigrants with visas: w22.09 26
Satan’s challenge like a claim of being more honest: w14 1/1 9
Satan’s influence like carbon monoxide: w14 11/1 6
Satan’s organization like subversive criminal organization: w10 11/15 24-26
searching for deserving ones as for keys: w94 9/15 18
searching for prospective disciples as for lost child: w19.07 16-17; w07 11/15 25
seeking divine wisdom like searching for gold: w16.08 18-19
seeking skillful direction as from a helmsman: w12 6/15 30
selfishness like rust on iron: w14 3/15 8
serving Jehovah with whole soul, heart, strength, as a slave might: cl 105
setting priorities like filling bucket with rocks and sand: yp2 294
sexual bounds of marriage like walls of city: w11 10/15 17
sinful state like archer who misses: w06 6/1 12-13
sin like a computer virus: ct 156-157
sin like coiled snake: w13 3/15 16
sin like disease too expensive to cure: w99 2/15 13
sin like disease with cure: w10 3/15 11-12
sin like grit in an engine: g 8/12 20
sin like terminal pandemic: w09 9/15 26
sin passed on like dent in baking pan: w15 4/1 13; bhs 30-31; bh 29; hl section 9; la 24; pe 74
sin passed on like spot on photocopies: g 1/06 8
small acts that promote unity like stitches: w21.07 19
sorrow a part of repentance as an egg is part of a cake: w21.10 5
spirit (life force) like electricity: bh 210-211; w01 7/15 5
spirit of world like poisonous gases in a mine: w08 9/15 20-22
spirit of world like radiation poisoning: w97 10/1 25-26
spirit of world like river current: w16.01 31
spirit of world like wind carrying seeds: w06 4/1 9
spiritual defenses like immune system: w05 1/1 23
spiritual food like food chef prepares for himself: w16.10 15
spiritual growth like growth of a tree: w13 3/15 14-15
spiritual qualities like links in anchor chain: w12 2/1 30
spiritual routine like riding bicycle: w89 7/15 12
spiritual vision can blur like physical: w04 4/1 20-21
straying from Jehovah’s organization as into unsafe waters: w10 6/15 6
stripping off old personality like dirty clothes: w17.08 18
stripping off old personality the way a crab sheds its shell: g05 1/8 19
studying the Bible like examining a prospective house: w23.10 18
study without application like never seeding one’s garden: w05 4/15 27
subtle attacks like termites eating wood of house: w14 9/15 14
suggestive images like thin edge of wedge: w20.06 12
superior authorities hold society together as stitches do a wound: kl 133-134
talking to children only of warnings like seeing only warnings on restaurant menu: w14 9/15 18
teaching disciples as if a driving instructor: w20.11 3, 5-6; w04 7/1 15-16
temptations like snares on dark path: kp 26
things in world like lures of fisherman: w13 8/15 26-27
time management like putting rocks and sand in bucket: w10 11/15 16
tomb like a drawer that only Jehovah can open: g 8/09 32
training brothers like maintenance of car: w15 4/15 4
training brothers like teaching son to drive: w17.01 29-30
training children as if saplings: w96 12/1 10-15
training children like preparing, protecting, shooting arrows: w13 8/15 17; w08 4/1 13-16
training of heart and mind like soldier training drills: w14 9/15 15-16
trials like fire used to forge steel: w21.02 28
Trinity like twins, not father and son: w98 5/15 22-23
true worship identifiable like genuine money: bh 144-145
trusting in Jehovah as in a capable, caring doctor: w24.01 3
truth like a little flower: w18.11 5; w17.06 12; w96 5/15 15
using thinking ability as would sailors: w02 8/15 21-24
walking in Jehovah’s paths as if hikers: w02 7/1 28-30
Watchtower Study comments like bouquet: w10 10/15 22-23
wicked world like man on death row: w17.04 9-10
wicked world like uncharted wilderness: w11 12/15 14
wife like a Tiffany lotus lamp: w06 5/15 32
youths pursue goals as if finding the right bus: w18.04 25, 28
zeal weakened as if by replacing lightbulbs with dimmer ones: w12 4/15 16-17
experiences:
professor helped to see racial variety not bad: w89 11/1 15
finding illustrations: cf 121, 125-127; w22.01 13; w02 9/1 23-24; w91 9/15 29-30
Greek words: it-1 1174-1175; w99 3/15 19
“parable” not equivalent: it-1 1174-1175
Isaiah’s use: si 123
James’ use: w22.01 12-13; it-1 1184; si 249
Jehovah’s use: w94 9/15 27-28
Jesus’ use: cf 118-127; cl 213-214; it-1 1175-1178; it-2 70; w15 3/15 11; jy 106, 108-111; w14 5/1 14-15; w02 9/1 13-18; be 242-246; w94 10/1 6; w94 10/15 17; w94 11/1 15; sg 169; gt chapter 43; w90 10/1 18; sh 238; si 190-191; w87 3/15 8-9; w87 4/1 8; w87 4/15 8-9
Jude’s use: si 262-263
metaphors: cf 120-121; be 240-241
Paul’s use: it-1 1184; be 245
similes: be 240
use in field ministry: lmd lesson 11; mwb21.05 5; th 11; w14 5/15 9-10; w05 12/1 29; be 253-254; w99 3/15 19-20; w91 1/15 19-20
Bible studies: w04 3/15 18
use in giving counsel: w86 9/15 16-17
associations: w86 9/15 17
inactive publisher: w86 9/15 18
use in reaching hearts: w91 9/15 28-30
use in teaching: cf 120-127; lmd lesson 11; w22.01 12-13; th 11; km 4/12 1; jr 134; w02 9/1 22-24; be 53, 57, 240-246, 257; sg 52-53, 168-171
one’s children: w16.09 30-32
value: cf 118-120; w22.01 12; it-1 1175-1176
value of visual: w86 10/15 32
Bible Illustrations
adoption of anointed as sons (Ro 8): w15 1/15 16-17; w05 12/1 29
bird protects chicks (Ps 91; Mt 23): w02 10/1 12
birds and lilies (Mt 6): w23.03 17-18; w16.07 9-11; w02 9/1 12-13; w95 9/15 32; w90 10/1 18-19
building a tower (Lu 14): jy 196-197; w92 8/15 26-29; gt chapter 84; w89 1/1 8
building with fire-resistant materials (1Co 3): w99 7/15 12-13; w98 11/1 8-15
Caesar’s things to Caesar (Mt 22; Mr 12; Lu 20): mwb20.04 2; it-1 382, 1175; it-2 1100; lvs 63; w16.04 27-28, 31; jy 250; lv 53; w12 5/1 5-6; w11 9/1 22-23; w10 7/1 22-23; w09 6/15 19; lr 148-149; g03 12/8 10; gt chapter 108; w90 2/1 8
camel through needle’s eye (Mt 19; Mr 10; Lu 18): it-2 483-484, 805-806, 955; w06 1/1 22; w04 5/15 30-31; w92 11/15 32; w86 6/15 8-10
“camel,” not “rope”: it-1 396; w87 12/1 31
children in the marketplace (Mt 11; Lu 7): jy 98; gt chapter 39; w87 1/15 24
choosing prominent places (Lu 14): jy 194; lr 107-109; gt chapter 83; w89 11/15 25; w88 12/15 8
Christian congregation like a body (Ro 12; 1Co 12; Eph 4): w20.08 20-25; it-1 349, 848; w14 6/15 24; w09 10/15 5; w02 11/15 9; w99 6/1 15; w97 10/15 14-15; w96 7/15 20
denarius paid to vineyard workers (Mt 20): it-1 1182; w16.07 21-22; jy 226-227; w10 10/15 10-11; w07 5/1 30; w06 6/1 14-15; gt chapter 97; w89 8/15 8-9
meaning of denarius: jy 227; gt chapter 97; w89 8/15 8-9
doorkeeper watching for master’s return from abroad (Mr 13): it-1 899; w05 2/1 32; w03 1/1 19
dragnet (Mt 13): it-1 649, 1179; jy 111; w14 12/15 13-14; kr 106-107; w12 8/1 20; w08 7/15 20-21; w92 6/15 17-22; gt chapter 43; w87 4/15 9
understanding clarified (2008): w08 7/15 17, 20-21
eagles, cedars, and vine (Eze 17): it-1 424; it-2 807; rr 85-87; w07 7/1 12-13; w88 9/15 17-18
evil slave (Mt 24): it-1 773; w04 3/1 13-14; w99 7/15 17
understanding clarified (2013): w13 7/15 24
faithful and discreet slave (Mt 24): w22.07 10-12; w20.01 31; od 18-20; it-1 499, 805-806; it-2 1035; w17.02 25-28; w16.01 26; jl lesson 19; w13 7/15 20-25; w10 9/15 26; w09 6/15 20-24; w07 4/1 22-23; w04 3/1 8-18; w02 3/15 13-14; wt 130-131; w90 3/15 10-16
understanding clarified (2013): w15 3/15 8-9; w13 7/15 8, 20-25
faithful steward (Lu 12): it-1 805-806; jy 182; w13 7/15 20; w09 6/15 20-21; w07 4/1 22-23; km 6/98 3-4; gt chapter 78; w90 3/15 10-16; w88 10/1 9
appointed over master’s belongings: it-1 806; w08 1/15 24-25; w07 4/1 22-23; w04 3/1 12; w90 3/15 15-16, 19
“food supplies at the proper time”: it-1 499; w90 3/15 15-16
faith like a ship (1Ti 1): w99 7/15 15-20
father’s willingness to give (Mt 7; Lu 11): cf 114-115; w13 4/1 11; w06 12/15 22-23; w02 9/1 12; w90 5/15 14-15
figs, good and bad (Jer 24): it-2 770; mwb17.04 4; w13 3/15 8, 10; w94 3/1 13-17; w94 4/15 30
fig tree (Lu 13): it-1 1180; it-2 901; jy 184; w13 5/15 9; w03 5/15 25-26; gt chapter 79; w88 10/15 8
fine shepherd (Joh 10): cf 9-10, 124-125; jy 186-187; w02 9/1 17-18; w95 2/1 9-12; w95 5/15 24; gt chapter 80; w88 11/1 8-9; ws 11-12
doorkeeper: it-1 898-899; it-2 88
voice: cf 124-125; it-2 1161; w04 9/1 13-14, 17; w90 3/15 25
fishers of men (Mt 4; Mr 1; Lu 5): w20.09 2-7; w16.05 9; w92 6/15 12-17
foundation of house (Mt 7; Lu 6): w16.10 18; w08 2/15 31-32; w08 11/1 29-31; w07 1/1 32; w07 9/1 31; w05 5/15 32
foundling nurtured to womanhood (Eze 16): w88 9/15 17
God’s field (1Co 3): w99 7/15 12
gold nose ring in snout of a pig (Pr 11): w02 7/15 29-30; yp 243-244; w87 5/15 29
grand evening meal (Lu 14): it-1 1180; jy 194-195; w10 4/15 26; gt chapter 83; w88 12/15 8-9
Greek games (1Co 9): bt 149; w92 8/1 13-18; w90 9/15 25
hope like an anchor (Heb 6): ijwbq article 158; w22.10 25; w21.02 30
Jesus’ comment on ‘his food’ (Joh 4:34): w23.03 7
Jotham’s illustration of trees (Jg 9): it-1 362; w08 2/15 9; w96 5/15 13
king contemplating battle (Lu 14): jy 196-197; gt chapter 84; w89 1/1 8-9
Kingdom of the heavens: mwb18.02 2; jy 106, 108-111; w96 2/1 17-20; gt chapter 43; si 178, 184; w87 3/15 8-9; w87 4/1 8-9; w87 4/15 8-9
king who canceled large debt (Mt 18): w21.06 22; it-1 601, 1179; w16.01 16; jy 152-153; w12 11/15 26-27; w07 9/15 29; w05 3/15 6; w04 2/1 15; lr 77-81; w02 9/1 14; w97 12/1 15, 20; w91 8/15 21; gt chapter 64; si 179; w88 3/1 8-9
jailers: it-1 1250
monetary equivalents: w94 10/15 25
leaven hidden in flour (Mt 13; Lu 13): it-1 1179; it-2 1008; jy 108; w14 12/15 8-10; kr 90-91; w08 7/15 19-21
understanding clarified (2008): w08 7/15 17, 19
lost drachma coin (Lu 15): w20.06 24-25; it-1 1181; jy 199; w12 12/1 21; w03 2/1 14-15, 17-18; w91 4/15 18-19; gt chapter 85; w89 1/15 8-9
value of coin: it-2 427; w12 12/1 21
lost sheep (Mt 18; Lu 15): w21.06 20; lff lesson 57; w20.06 28-29; it-1 1180-1181; jy 150-151, 198-199; kr 127; w12 4/15 5; w08 2/1 10; w03 2/1 14-17; lr 162-164; w91 4/15 18-19; gt chapters 63, 85; w89 1/15 8; w88 2/15 9
marriage feast (Mt 22): mwb20.04 2; it-1 1183; jy 248-249; gt chapter 107; w90 1/15 8-9
those first invited: it-2 485
three calls for guests to come: w08 1/15 31
treatment of king’s slaves: it-1 89
minas (Lu 19): it-1 1182; mwb18.08 4; jy 232-233; kr 10; w93 5/1 14; w92 3/15 6; gt chapter 100; w89 10/1 8-9
ascertaining gains: w90 3/15 15
bank: it-1 248
mirror (Jas 1:22-25): w22.01 12-13; w22.03 4; w14 3/15 8-9; km 7/14 2; w11 8/1 21; w09 8/1 13; w08 6/15 25; w96 1/1 31; w95 7/15 32; g91 7/8 7-8; w88 8/15 15-16
murderous cultivators of vineyard (Mt 21; Mr 12; Lu 20): mwb20.04 2; it-1 89, 1183; w17.12 9-10; jy 246-247; ip-1 76-77; gt chapter 106; w90 1/1 8-9; w88 6/1 12
proof against Trinity: ti 17
mustard grain (Mt 13; Mr 4; Lu 13): it-1 1179; jy 108; w14 12/15 7-8; kr 90-91; w08 7/15 17-19, 21; g96 8/8 22-23
birds lodging in grown plant: w08 7/15 18-19
“tiniest of all the seeds”: it-2 454; g96 8/8 22; gt chapter 43; w87 3/15 9
understanding clarified (2008): w08 7/15 17-19
narrow door (Lu 13): jy 192; gt chapter 82; w88 12/1 8
neighborly Samaritan (Lu 10): ijwbq article 190; cl 214-215; w21.10 8; w18.08 19; w18.09 19; it-1 1180; it-2 490-491; mwb18.07 4; w15 3/15 11; jy 172-173; w07 9/15 26; w07 10/1 5; my story 95; lr 82-86; w02 9/1 4-5, 15; w01 1/1 14; w98 7/1 30-31; w96 3/15 21-22; w91 8/15 20-21; gt chapter 73; w88 7/15 24-25; g86 1/22 7-8
ethnic differences: w18.06 10; g 8/09 7-8; w93 9/15 3-4
inn: it-1 1201; w98 7/1 30
oil and wine on man’s wounds: w12 8/1 26; w89 11/15 25
road from Jerusalem to Jericho: cf 122-123; ijwbq article 190; it-1 54; w02 9/1 16-17; w98 7/1 30
new wine, old wineskins (Mt 9; Mr 2; Lu 5): it-2 1189; jy 70; w10 3/1 15; gt chapter 28; w89 7/15 25; w86 6/1 9
olive tree (Ro 11): mwb19.02 6; it-1 362; it-2 552; w11 5/15 22-25; w11 8/15 32; w10 11/1 29; w00 5/15 28-29
grafting “contrary to nature”: it-1 993; it-2 474, 552; w11 5/15 24-25; w00 5/15 28-29
pearl of high value (Mt 13): it-1 1179; it-2 594; w17.06 10; jy 111; w14 12/15 10; kr 65; w05 2/1 8-18; w93 5/1 32; w91 1/15 19-20; gt chapter 43; w87 4/15 8-9
pearls before swine (Mt 7): it-2 594, 1049; jy 90; gt chapter 35; w86 11/15 8
persistent friend (Lu 11): w19.11 13; it-1 1180; jy 174; w13 4/1 11; w06 12/15 20-22; w02 9/1 12; gt chapter 74; w90 5/15 13-14; w88 8/1 9
Pharisee and tax collector (Lu 18): it-1 1182; jy 220-221; w12 5/15 28; w10 10/15 8-9; lr 112-116; gt chapter 94; w89 7/1 8-9; w88 4/15 14; w87 7/15 10
fasting twice a week: w89 11/15 25
power of Christ protects as would a tent (2Co 12:9): w08 6/15 6; w06 12/15 24
prodigal son (Lu 15): w21.10 5-6, 9; w20.06 25-28; it-1 1181; mwb18.07 6; jy 200-203; w14 12/15 14-15; w02 9/1 14-15; w98 10/1 9-17; w97 9/1 30-31; g95 1/8 19-21; w91 4/15 19; gt chapter 86; w89 2/1 8-9; w89 2/15 16-17; w88 1/15 21-23
attitude upon return: w90 2/15 23
herds swine: it-2 1049
similarity to God’s dealings with mankind: g86 2/22 9-10
putting hand to plow and looking at things behind (Lu 9): it-2 649; mwb18.07 3; jy 155; w12 3/15 25-26; w12 4/15 15-16; w92 5/1 20-21; gt chapter 65; w88 3/15 25
refiner (Mal 3): kr 22-23; w87 6/15 10-11, 16-17
rich man (Lu 12): it-1 1180; it-2 1038; jy 180; w13 2/15 23-24; w08 7/1 12-13; w07 8/1 26-30; w05 10/1 32; lr 87-91; w98 11/15 19; gt chapter 77; w88 9/15 9
lesson taught: w86 7/15 31
“they” who demanded the man’s soul: w86 7/15 31
rich man and Lazarus (Lu 16): ijwbq article 187; it-1 1181; it-2 226; jy 206-209; gt chapter 88; si 191; w89 3/15 8-9; w89 4/1 24-25; pe 88-89; rs 174-175
bosom position of Abraham: it-1 356-357
Hades: it-1 1016
Lazarus a beggar: it-1 279
rich man takes poor man’s sheep (2Sa 12): w21.10 12-13; w12 2/15 23-24
seeds sown illustrate resurrection (1Co 15): w98 7/1 19-20
sewing unshrunk cloth on old garment (Mr 2): it-2 904; jy 70
sheep and goats (Mt 25): ijwbq article 115; mwb20.04 2; it-1 1183-1184; w15 3/15 25-29; w15 7/15 17-18; jy 264-265; kr 226, 228; w13 7/15 6-7; w10 9/15 28-29; w99 5/1 13; rq 13; w95 10/15 18-28; w93 5/1 19-20; jv 163-164; gt chapter 111; w90 5/15 8-9; w89 9/1 19-20; w87 3/1 29; w87 5/15 12-13; tp 82
“as a shepherd separates” (Mt 25:32): w15 1/1 13
characteristics of each: w89 5/1 19
goats: w22.09 16; it-1 617; w95 10/15 26-27
judgment: w97 2/15 29; w95 10/15 22-23, 25-28; w87 3/1 29
separation: w15 3/15 26-27; w97 7/1 30-31; w95 10/15 22-23, 27-28; w88 1/1 16-18; w88 5/1 14
sheep gain “everlasting life”: w09 8/15 8-9
sheep termed “righteous ones”: it-1 606; w95 10/15 25-26
understanding clarified (1881): w15 3/15 26
understanding clarified (1884): w95 2/1 12
understanding clarified (1923): w23.10 4; w15 3/15 26; re 120; w95 2/1 12; w95 5/15 18
understanding clarified (1995): w15 3/15 26-27; w13 7/15 6; w97 7/1 30-31; w95 10/15 18-24, 26-28
sinners are attached to sin as draft animals are to a wagon (Isa 5:18): ip-1 82-83
slave getting in from the field (Lu 17): it-1 1181; jy 210; w12 12/15 10-11; w05 3/15 18-19; gt chapter 89; w89 4/15 24
slaves presenting themselves to righteousness (Ro 6): w05 12/1 29
slaves watching for master’s return from marriage (Lu 12): jy 182; w04 10/1 21-22; w03 1/1 18; w00 1/15 11; gt chapter 78; w88 10/1 8-9
sower (Mt 13; Mr 4; Lu 8): w18.05 14-15; it-1 1178; jy 106, 108-109; w08 7/15 12-14; w03 2/1 8-13; w99 11/1 15-17; w96 2/1 17-18; w92 12/15 6; gt chapter 43; w87 3/15 8-9; w87 4/1 8
seed: it-2 1014; w99 11/1 16
seeds falling along road: it-1 830
seeds sown in fine soil: jy 109; w03 2/1 20-23; wt 107; w97 10/15 14
soil: w21.10 26; w20.03 3; kr 78; w08 7/15 13-14; w05 2/1 28; w90 8/1 18
sower: w08 7/15 13-14
sower who sleeps (Mr 4): w21.10 27; w14 12/15 12-13; w08 7/15 14-16
strain out gnat, gulp down camel (Mt 23): w02 9/1 11
straw in brother’s eye (Mt 7): w08 5/15 9-10; w02 9/1 11; w02 11/15 18
video Remove the Rafter: lff lesson 56
stumbled by hand, foot, or eye (Mt 18): mwb18.02 8
talents (Mt 25): w21.08 21-23; mwb20.04 2; it-1 1183; w15 3/15 19-24; jy 262-263; w12 8/1 28-29; w12 9/15 23, 25-27; w10 7/15 17-18; w04 3/1 15-18; w04 10/1 22-23; w99 5/1 22-23; gt chapter 111; w90 5/1 8-9; w87 2/1 17-18; ws 56-58, 60-72
abilities of slaves considered: w15 3/15 21-22; w10 7/15 18; w95 6/15 17-18
bankers: it-1 248; w11 5/1 26; w08 12/1 8
settling accounts: w15 3/15 23; w90 3/15 12-14; w87 8/1 16-17
understanding clarified (2015): w15 3/15 20-24
ten virgins (Mt 25): mwb20.04 2; it-1 1183; mwb18.03 7; w15 3/15 12-16; jy 260-261; w12 9/15 23, 25-26; w07 9/1 31; re 56; w04 3/1 14-15, 17-18; w99 5/1 21-22; gt chapter 111; w90 4/15 8-9; ws 38-44, 46-55
bridegroom arrives (Mt 25:10): mwb18.03 7; w15 3/15 13; w13 7/15 7-8
bridegroom delays (Mt 25:5): jy 261
Israelite wedding customs: it-2 341
understanding clarified (2015): w15 3/15 13-16
threshing cumin (Isa 28): it-2 649; w01 10/1 11-12; ip-1 296, 301
treasure hidden in a field (Mt 13): it-1 1179; jy 110-111; w14 12/15 10; kr 65-66; gt chapter 43; w87 4/15 8-9
triumphal procession (2Co 2): it-2 1129; w10 8/1 23
two children (Mt 21): mwb20.04 2; it-1 1182; jy 246; fy 76-77; w94 3/1 28-29; gt chapter 106; w90 1/1 8
two debtors (Lu 7): it-1 601, 1178; jy 100; w10 8/15 6; gt chapter 40; w87 2/1 9
two sticks (Eze 37): w22.01 22; w18.01 14; it-1 417; rr 129-136; w16.07 31; w88 9/15 25
understanding clarified (2016): rr 240; w16.07 31-32
unclean spirit returns (Mt 12): jy 105; gt chapter 42; w87 3/1 8-9
unrighteous steward (Lu 16): it-1 1181; w17.07 8-11; jy 204-205; gt chapter 87; w89 3/1 8-9
vine (Ps 80): w06 6/15 17-18
vine (Joh 15): mwb20.04 3; w18.05 14-15, 17-19; jy 276-277; w09 5/1 15; w06 6/15 18-19; w03 2/1 18-23; w02 2/1 17-18; gt chapter 116; w90 8/15 8
vineyard (Isa 5:1-7): w06 6/15 18; ip-1 73-79
wheat and weeds (Mt 13): it-1 1178-1179; it-2 1014; rr 97-98, 104-105; mwb18.02 3; jy 106, 108, 110; w14 11/15 25-26; kr 9-10; w13 7/15 9-14, 18-19; w10 3/15 19-23; rk 24-25; g 2/07 7-9; re 188, 208-209; w04 2/15 5-6; w03 9/1 5-6; w02 9/1 16; w95 4/15 6; w93 11/1 32; gt chapter 43; gm 26-27; w87 3/15 9; w87 4/15 8
conclusion of system of things: it-2 1056; w10 3/15 21-22; w94 4/15 11
harvest: it-2 207, 756; mwb18.02 3; w13 7/15 12-14, 19; w10 3/15 21-23; w10 6/15 5; ws 68
oversowing weeds in ancient times: w16.10 32
separation during harvest: w13 7/15 12; w10 3/15 21-23; g 2/07 8-9; wt 178-182; w97 7/1 31
slaves of master: w13 7/15 10
storehouse for wheat: it-2 1038; w13 7/15 12; w10 3/15 22; w10 4/15 12
understanding clarified (2013): w13 7/15 13-14
weeds: it-1 1178-1179; it-2 1014, 1176; mwb18.02 3; w13 7/15 9-10, 12-13; w10 3/15 20-22
wheat: w13 7/15 9-14; w10 3/15 19-23; w10 4/15 12
wheat during centuries of apostasy: od 17-18; rr 98-99; w13 7/15 10; w12 1/15 7-8; w12 4/15 32; w10 3/15 21; re 31, 57; w00 10/15 25-26, 30; w94 5/1 23-24; jv 44
wheat grain that dies, then produces fruit (Joh 12): jy 240; gt chapter 103; w89 11/15 8-9
widemouthed cooking pot (Jer 1:13): jr 14-15
widemouthed cooking pot (Eze 11, 24): w88 9/15 15, 21
widow and judge (Lu 18): w21.11 23-24; it-1 1182; it-2 1149; jy 220; w14 4/1 6-7; w06 12/15 25-29; gt chapter 94; w89 3/1 29; w89 7/1 8
widow’s contribution of two coins (Mr 12; Lu 21): cl 184-185; w21.04 6-7; mwb20.04 2; mwb18.05 5; w17.01 11; w09 7/15 29; yp2 166; w07 2/1 17-18; w04 11/1 19, 23; lr 96; ct 151; w97 10/15 16-17; w89 10/15 31; w88 7/1 12; w87 12/1 28-30
value of coins: cl 185; w21.04 6; it-2 427; mwb18.05 5; w09 8/1 30; w08 3/1 12
wife “a weaker vessel” (1Pe 3:7): w06 5/15 32
wild vine (Eze 15): w88 9/15 17
word pictures: mwb21.07 15; w09 5/1 13-15
young child exemplifies humility (Mt 18; Mr 9; Lu 9): jy 149; w12 11/15 15; w08 3/15 4; w07 2/1 8-10; w05 10/15 28; lr 12; gt chapter 62; w88 2/1 9