Jesus Taught In Parables

Mat 13:14  And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

2Co 3:6  Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

2Co 3:14  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

Jesus and Paul say they didn't understand. Who would I be to disagree? Paul further says they don't understand the old testament. Will you change the words of Paul to say they understood part of it? If you believe the Bible literally you ought to acknowledge what the Bible literally says. When Jesus speaks in parables He sumarises what the OT says, because the scriptures speak of Him.

Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Heb_10:7  Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Eph 2:20  And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 2:21  In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph 2:22  In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Paul sees the church as a temple.

Mat 26:61  And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

Mat 27:40  And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

Mar 14:58  We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

Mar 15:29  And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,

That was the testimony of the false witnesses, who didn't all agree with each other. John explains what Jesus said.

Joh 2:19  Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Joh 2:20  Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
Joh 2:21  But he spake of the temple of his body.

The Jews didn't understand what Jesus said. Jesus didn't literally explain. That's what the scripture literally says. Paul teaches further.

1Co_12:27  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Col_1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

Paul mentions the temple of God in three places.

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

2Co 6:16  And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Paul mentions the temple of God in three places. It is understood that he was consistent. That's part of the principle of comparing scripture to scripture. Jesus said, "search the scriptures." That's why it was understood that antichrist would be a betrayer in the church, all the way through the beginning of the Reformation. That's what Luther and Calvin believed. Eventually literalism overtook the biblical teaching in the church.

Jesus publicly taught in parables.

Mat 13:34  All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

There isn't much, if anything in the Olivet Discourse that isn't found elsewhere in the Gospels. In particular compare the parables of Luke 12:36-59 to Matthew Mat 24:42-51, 24:7-10, 24:32-33, showing that the Olivet Discourse is composed of parables.

Luk 12:41  Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?