When the Assyrians, who had served as God’s instrument in punishing the Israelites, resorted to wanton cruelty, Isaiah exposed their presumptuousness with this illustration: “Will the ax enhance itself over the one chopping with it, or the saw magnify itself over the one moving it back and forth? ”
दूसरों को सिखाते वक्‍त यीशु ने भी बहुत - से दृष्टांतों का इस्तेमाल किया ।