Govoreći o paraboli, prvo na što pomislimo je Novi zavjet, odnosno Isusove prispodobe. No parabola kao termin je korišten još u staroj Grčkoj, točnije kod Aristotela. Parabola je definirana kao retorički termin i korištena u retorici grčkih filozofa i političara. Retorika i njeno izučavanje je bila jedna od najvažnijih i najcjenjenijih disciplina u to doba, a parabola je bila dio retorike Parabola u Bibliji je definirana kao književna vrsta i zbog toga trebamo vidjeti gdje je podrijetlo parabole kao književne vrste. Podrijetlo parabole možemo naći u židovstvu, točnije u židovskoj vjerskoj tradiciji. Uspoređujući upotrebu i značenje pojma parabole koju je imala u Grčkoj i u židovstvu vidimo jednu jasnu razliku, razliku u značenju tog pojma. Dok je u Grčkoj pojam parabole korišten samo za retoriku, u židovstvu je taj pojam imao puno šire značenje prvenstveno obogaćena jezičnim derivacijama. Tema našeg diplomskog rada je prispodoba o farizeju i cariniku, točnije pobožnost koja se opisuje u ovoj prispodobi. U prvim poglavljima donosimo sve aspekte koji su vezani uz Isusovu poruku koja je temelj ove prispodobe uspoređujući dva lika, farizeja i carinika. Donosimo karakteristike farizejeve i carinikove pobožnosti i vjerskog osjećaja kroz prizmu pravednosti, poniznosti, milosti ljudske i Božje te napose karakteristike Isusove poruke nove antropologije. U ostalim poglavljima donosimo egzegezu samog teksta prispodobe iz Lukinog evanđelja analizirajući tekst koji smo podijelili na više dijelova. Razdvojili smo i opisali temeljnu teološku poruku iskazanu prenesenim, alegorijskim smislom.

Speaking of parables, first of all, we think of the New Testament, or Jesus' Parables. But the parable as a term was used in ancient Greece, more precisely at Aristotle. The parable is defined as a rhetorical term and used in the rhetoric of Greek philosophers and politicians. Rhetoric and her study was one of the most important and most respected disciplines at that time, and the parable was part of the rhetoric. The Parable in the Bible is defined as a literary species and for this reason we need to see where the origin of the parables is literary. The origins of the parable can be found in Judaism, more precisely in the Jewish religious tradition. Comparing the use and meaning of the concept of parable in Greece and Judaism, we see a clear distinction, a difference in the meaning of this notion. While in Greece the term parable was used only for rhetoric, in Judaism this term had a much wider meaning, primarilye nriched by linguistic derivations. The subject of our graduate work is the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax collector more precisely the devotion described in this parable. In the first chapters, we bring all the aspects related to Jesus' message that is the basis of this parable, comparing two figures, Pharisee and Tax collector. We bring the characteristics of the Pharisee sand Tax collector of piety and religious feeling through the prism of justice, humility, the grace of man and God, and the characteristics of Jesus' new anthropology. In other chapters, we bring the exegesis of the text of the parable of the Lukes Gospel by analyzing the text that we have divided into several parts. We divided and described the fundamental theological message expressed in the transcribed, allegorical sense.