You remember in the New Testament when Jesus spoke in "parables" which were objected to by His disciples but regarding which He explained His rationale for using such in His public speech:

Matt 13:10 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
Matt 13:13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
Matt 13:34 All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable.

So were and are "parables" actual news reports of something that really happened, whenever and wherever....or simply make-believe-fantasy myths not even relating to legends?

As I peruse Christ's parables, they seem to me to be stories of historical events which really did occur, even though many of the superfluous location and circumstantial details were and are vague or omitted.

Within the five-county metro area, 57-year-old Jack, 17-year-old Jay and 15-year-old Jill were residing in a nice section of suburbia. Jack did not know Jay, nor if Jay was Jill's boyfriend, and Jay knew nothing about Jack.

It was a warm summer day.

Cute-and-shapely, nude-armed and naked-legged, near-tween Jill (who was chignoned, short-sleeved, and wearing knee-length shorts) was biking along the roadside, ignorantly presuming that her misattire was normal style and fashion for summerwear. He did not know that she was heading to the local library to explore the possibility of committing and not performing [so-called] "medical"-exam appointments with a male dentist, male chiropractor, male spa masseur, and male gynocologist...and he was almost late driving to his business appointment at the company.

[The reason why Jill was so doing was motivated by:

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 19:31 And the first-born said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
Genesis 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."
Genesis 19:33 So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
Genesis 19:34 And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."
Genesis 19:35 So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
Genesis 19:36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
Genesis 19:37 The first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
Genesis 19:38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Benammi; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.

Genesis 38:14 she put off her widow's garments, and put on a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.

Ruth 1:13 would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone forth against me."

First Timothy 5:14 (KJV, not RSV nor NASV) So I would have younger women [Gr. ne(o)teras, with NO mention of the Greek word for "widows," which is: cheras] marry, bear children [NO purported "reproductive" "health" nor "women's rights"-"choice" "freedom"], manage their households, and give the enemy no cause to revile us.]

A few days later, Jack (recollecting and responding to Jill's partial indecent-exposure public immodesty which she had imposed against his non-soliciting accidental view by visiting that same local library to slyly Google and peruse some "naturist and nudist photos" - as Jill happened to glance at him doing that and what he was gazing upon!) was jogging on the same road, and he saw Jill jogging this time, this time wearing two ponytails of long hair hanging down on her chest, shorter shorts, shorter shirt sleeves, and flip-flops with no socks on underneath.

Jack turned around and ran behind her to stalk her, as she nervously slipped on a "FREE" sign to hang down from her neck on her back. When she turned onto a side street, Jack followed her, and noticed which house she ran up to.

About a week later, Jack drove by Jill's house on his bicycle, being that he had seen a FREE LEMONADE sign out on the main road pointing to the side road where he had seen Jill drive in a week earlier. From a distance, he noticed that Jill, lounging on her chair beside her lemonade stand, was now wearing a bikini, had let her long hair hang down loose, and was barefoot.

Jack also noticed that when Jill saw him, she slipped on a new sign hanging down from her neck on her chest which read: "FREE SEX." So he got off his bicycle, approached her, commented that he liked her sign, asked her first name, then asked her if it meant that she was available to "have sex" with him.

She responded with a "Maybe," then asked him what exactly he meant by "sex," asked him for his first name, after which he told her the dictionary definition of "fellatio." She gave him a thumbs up, after which he queried her as to where they could do it. She suggested in her house, and then taking down and carrying her lemonade sign she and Jack proceeded into the back yard, into the back door, and into the bedroom where she removed her bikini and then denuded Jack.

Out of curiosity, Jack asked her if she knew that the priest of RSV's Numbers 5:18 had been instructed to unbind the hair of a woman suspected of adultery, and that such a tradition of a woman presuming that her [mopheaded] long hair was insufficient as a prayer covering according to the KJV rendition of First Corinthians 11:14-16. Jill responded by asking Jack if her "flowing locks" (which she said were mentioned in RSV's and NASV's Song of Solomon 7:5) were "captivating."

Jack's response was that the RSV and NASV's translations of Second Samuel 13:18 spoke of Tamar traditionally wearing a long-sleeved full-length gown in the process of her getting raped, and he asked Jill why she was not wearing anything on her bare arms.

Jill then told Jack that she had been Scripturally ordered to "uncover her legs" so that her "nakedness was exposed" and her "shame seen," according to various translations of Isaiah 47:1-3, and that she was barefooted because she "lustfully" was enticing Jack who she considered a "stranger" concordant with RSV's and NASV's Jeremiah 2:25.

Jill then informed Jack that they had mutually applied the shameful buttocks-baring scenario described in Isaiah chapter 20, after which he could do the LORD's job of baring her secret parts as she spread out her legs per KJV's Ezekiel 16:25, and then both acting out Ezekiel 23:21.

Jack then asked Jill if she was a temporary whore like Tamar who prostituted herself with Judah in the Old-Testament book of Genesis, or if she was playing the harlot while her boyfriend or husband was away as described in Proverbs chapter 7. She replied with Ezekiel 16:7 that she had been naked and bare, that her breasts had formed, and her hair was grown, thus obviously not "under-aged" and that he was not engaging in "child molestation."

He asked her what the gold band was on the 3rd and not 4th finger of her left hand, and if it meant that she was married or betrothed (i.e. engaged)...and if she was pregnant or menstruating. She responded by erotically sticking up only that 3rd finger at him (palm down), and asking: "You mean this?"

Jack exclaimed that that really turned him on, and said that she got it at some dollar store "to scare off sex offenders."

Jill then asked him if he had VD, and told him that she needed to see his Driver's License and make a photocopy of it on her photocopy machine "before we shower together and you give me Song of Solomon 1:2 passionate lip-kissing in preparation for me being vaginally fingering with your dildo-like finger in accord with you doing the necking and petting details of Solomon 5:1 after I (remembering Deuteronomy 25:11) rub and suck your Ezekiel 23:20 extended protuberation, just in case I need it to show the police, sheriff, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and/or Department of Health. And I learned most of that in summer Vacation Bible School instead of from the feminist-sexist N.A.R.A.L. or abortion-homicide-"provider" Planned Parentlessness!"

Jack asked her for the same and that they both mutually fill out identical copies of an ad-hoc Concubine Certification Form before they proceed any further.

He added that he already had a primary wife, and taking her as his concubine would....well, as the Bible puts it:

Genesis 4:19 And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis 32:22 The same night [Jacob] arose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Deuteronomy 21:15 "If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other disliked, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the disliked, and if the first-born son is hers that is disliked,
Deuteronomy 21:16 then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the first-born in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the first-born,
Deuteronomy 21:17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the disliked, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the first issue of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

Ruth 4:6 Then the next of kin said, "I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it."

First Samuel 1:2 He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
First Samuel 27:3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal's widow.
First Chronicles 4:5 Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah;
Second Chronicles 24:3 Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

Jill asked him if he was a bishop, deacon, or elder - in which case he could merely be the husband of one wife, according to First Timothy 3:2 & 12.

After both had done it to and for each other, they got into a discussion about discrimination and lack of it.

It went back and forth like this:

"We have to be discriminating about certain things. We must distinguish between red and green stoplights, discriminating against those who go through red stoplights and against those who stop at green stoplights."

"And also not discriminate against those who stop at red stoplights and those who go at green stoplights."

"In legally-allowable reproductive-health pro-choice discrimination I would not want to ingest piss with pop, nor poop with pudding."

"Similarly, keeping Exel Energy's Danger: High Voltage laws off one's body in the sense of having them completely out of plain sight in a power substation, plus removing or hiding the skull-and-crossbones warning on poison bottles is an insane refusal against properly and legally discriminating."

"I discriminate by putting half E-85 plus regular gas and not diesel in my car."

"And I discriminate by putting diesel and not gasoline in my diesel truck."

"It irritates me when I look at a person whom I cannot tell which gender they are."

"I discriminate by not trying to barge into women's occupied lavatory stalls to ask them if I may watch them wipe themselves, AND discriminate against crippling accidents by avoiding collisions with trees and light posts near the highway, rather than running into them."

"Me too. I discriminate by not entering the men's lavatories to watch them urinate into the urinals.

"You in your non-questionable discrimination are my kind of driver, for which I would never belligerantly tailgate nor impatiently honk at for you ignoring and disregarding illicit inclusive diversity of what could and would be fatal."

"There's more. I discriminate to a large extent for the King James type translations which are overwhelmingly concordant with the inerrant 1894 Scrivener-Trinitarian Greek Text, but discriminate against the admittedly-nicely-worded RSV New Testament, being that it is significantly based upon the substantially-corrupt Nestle, UBS, and Westcott-Hort Greek texts, not to mention the Sinaiticus and the Vaticanus."

"And I discriminate against the ben Chayyim Hebrew text but discriminate for the infallible ben Asher Masoretic Hebrew Text of the Old Testament, edited by Rudolf Kittel and known as Biblia Hebraica based upon the Leningrad-codex manuscript."

The end result was that both agreed that it is improper, wicked and evil style or fashion, and immodestly indecent for girls and women, in general-public view, to indiscriminately be seen mopheaded, bare-armed sleevesless, bare-legged slacksless, and soxlessly wearing sandals or other open-toe shoes during seasonably warm weather, and that those who do not agree nor comply with that should be arrested and fined by Iranian, Saudi, and other islamic-fundamentalist anti-vice police officers sporting hijab burkas.

Jack then suggested that he and Jill try out their pro-modesty/anti-immodesty rationale by attempting to convey it to others at large in the hope of them also putting such into practice.

Jack: Let's single out a person wearing shorts baring their naked legs in general public view, and ask them why they are doing that.

Jill: Let's select a male at random.

Jack: No, let's pick a girl. The weaker-sex inferior gender are more gullible, according to First Timothy 2:8-15.

Jill: OK, superior one.

Jack [to a woman passerby wearing shorts baring her nude legs in general public view]:
Hey you, why are you wearing shorts baring your naked legs in general public view?

Passerby: What's it to you? Never mind! It's a free country! I feel comfortable wearing shorts during seasonably warm weather, or are you sadistic? What's wrong with being comfortable, and what is wrong with you?

Jack: You have asked me three questions and made two statements in rapid-fire succession. Would you please take things one at a time?

Passerby: I'm not in any hurry, and am in a good mood today, so I'll humor your rude and impolite audacity and play along with you a little.
First, what's it to you that I am wearing shorts? Would you instead that I go around totally naked as in a nudist park or resort?

Jack: The question of nudist-colony quaranteen in your case aside, there you go again, asking more than one question at a time. Remember, I asked you to not do that?
Your first response question is inadequate. You should have asked: "What's it to you that I am wearing shorts so as to expose my naked legs in general public view, particularly to your non-soliciting view?"
Obviously your next initial comment for me to "Never mind!" infers that you sense that there might be some problem to be resolved.
Moreover, does "freedom in our country" legitimize your imposing disturbing immodest harassment implied against me? People are free to do all sorts of obnoxious and harmful things against other people, but they have no right to do so - instead merely have a capacity to possibly misuse liberty, like when they voluntarily choose to use it for public indecent exposure of sorts.
And in what ways do you feel "comfortable" wearing shorts which bare your naked legs to others who have not specifically asked for that?

Passerby: It's "just" the seasonal style this time of year; everybody's doing it. I will die of heatstroke unless I bare my nude legs wearing shorts to others in general public view.
Besides, they will get tanned, without sweating.
Added to that, it is comfortable for me to avoid being hatefully chided and judgmentally condemned by pervert exhibitionists for not baring my legs to general public view for whatever squirrely and weaselword excuses they concoct.

Jack: You cannot help but going off cultically asking more tangent questions before we thoroughly-enough consider and discuss the previous ones, can you? Might I remind you that we have not finished discussing the questions and statements already made?
NOT "everyone" is doing it - such as nuns, amish, puritans, islamic, and businessmen with or without company suits on, etc.
WHO said that post-1910 bare-legged exposure is presently the official seasonal style and fashion....and that you will die of heatstroke if you do not bare your legs with shorts in general public view?

Passerby: The Devil and his evil-and-adulterous-generation pervert-human liars inferred that.

Jack: Can't you get tanned enough privately in your own fenced and enclosed backyard, some deserted farm field, nude beach, or tanning booth?
Your legs will sweat anyway, besides getting dirtier and sunburned so as to prematurly age skin without protective clothing on.
And IS it more comfortable for you to experience the shame and humiliation of going against your conscience by deliberately and wilfully exposing the nakedness of your legs with or without soxless toes-exposing feet in flip-flops against the sane and sensible in general public view who neither want to nor ask you to licentuously bare your lasciviously-uncovered legs and feet to them? Who do you think you are and pretend to be: some pseudo-sacred Bible character wandering around in soxless sandals which you saw in perverted-artist Sunday-school pictures and drawings, and now imitate in the futile and heretical hope of self-righteously earning holy brownie points to absolve and atone for past sins and insure entrance in Heaven?
Or by your flagrant and arrogant bare-leggedness and NON-cool soxlessless are you in effect thumbing your nose and uplifting your defiant 3rd finger up to and against the righteous God to prove to godless humans that you are rebellious and worldly ass?