Jesus' First Parables

What was Jesus' first parable? We know from John what the Lord's first miracle was: the water to wine at the wedding in Cana. John also seems to indicate the first parable, or at least the first time Jesus used metaphor as a teaching tool in His public ministry. And it's a doozy. Typical of the parables that would follow, it was completely obscure to His adversaries. It was, as Pastor Jim will show, a claim to deity. We'll be in John's Gospel, chapter 2, to begin a message called, Jesus' First Parables.