Today, we continue in the short series on the Parables of Jesus and we will be in Luke 11 and what is commonly known as the Parable of the Persistent Neighbor. The questions of “What is a parable?” and “Why did Jesus use parables to teach” have been discussed before. Briefly though, Jesus told simple, earthly stories, stories rooted in earthly events that anyone could understand, on that level. But he told them to illustrate truths about God’s coming kingdom, a kingdom that in most part God’s chosen people had rejected. To those who had not rejected the Father and His Son, the meaning of the story was discernable as told, or later through his patient explaining. For the rest, the meaning was lost or its truth perverted. Their eyes could not see. Their ears could not hear. Their hardened hearts could not yield.