The Key to Understanding

I wrote an object lesson about bread.  In it I talked about all the ways bread could be used and compared it to how the Bible is useful for instruction, correction, and many other things.  That is kind of like a parable.
To help us understand, Jesus spoke in parables.  Luke 4:34 says, "without a parable spake he not unto them".  He wanted to make sure he got his point across.  The best way was to tell short stories of things they were familiar with. He told the disciples, "that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand."(Luke 8:10).  The explaining of the Bible did not stop after the resurrection.  Luke 24:45 says about the disciples, " Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures".  John summed it up for us in 1 John 5:20, "And we know that the Son of God is come and has given us an understanding that we know him that is true, and we are in him."