Theologians have confessed that they do not know how to read the Old Testament scriptures the way that Jesus and the New Testament authors did. It is no surprise that there are so many churches which tolerate each other like a modern Areopagus, but which cannot agree on the meaning of simple parables. Scholtz has documented the problem of interpretation by comparing how parables are interpreted by many of them. <ref>"Collective meaning and specific, prophetic reference in the parables of Matthew 13" by Jacob Jan Scholtz, Stellenbosch University [http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/85594]</ref>