Following Wilder's altogether persuasive statement of the matter, we might say that the parables
impart to their hearers something of Jesus» vision of the power of God at work in the experience of the men confronted
by the reality of his
proclamation, and this would be true if we are allowed to stress the «in the experience of the men confronted...» It is a remarkable and little noted fact that, pace Jüngel, there is only a very limited number of parables which are concerned to proclaim the Kingdom of God per se.