The obvious insight is that parables can be true—truthful and truth-filled—independently of their factuality. Because of the importance of this insight, we state it again in only slightly different language: the truth of a parable—of a parabolic narrative—is not dependent on its factuality. And an additional obvious insight is that to worry or argue about the factual truth of a parable misses its point. Its point is its meaning. And “getting a parable” is getting its meaning—and often there’s more than one.
