An interesting question is to what extent the classical parables are like those of the Bible. (The reader may ... the Good Samaritan (Lk 10:29-37); the Rich Fool (Lk 12:16-21); the Rich Man ...

At that time, Jesus told them a parable ... But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is he who lays up treasure ...