The absence of parables in the epistles and in the book of Acts is a strong argument that those in the Gospels were not inserted by early Christians but were spoken by Jesus himself.
प्रेषितांनी लिहिलेल्या पत्रांमध्ये आणि प्रेषितांची कृत्ये या पुस्तकातही येशूचे दृष्टान्त आढळत नाहीत.