Bible prophecies

[orangebox21]

The assumption is made in light of the theory proposed by several Bible scholars that Jesus was an apocalypticist preacher who preached that a physical kingdom of God would eventually be set up on earth in his days.

Specifically which Bible scholars? I'm interested to see what Biblical interpretation led to their theory.

It's not about what the Bible teaches,

If we are to discuss Christianity then what the Bible teaches is the ultimate authority over Christianity.

rather it's about what we can glean from each book in order to discern what may have likely happened or may have likely been said vs what was made up later on by the authors.

What are you getting at here?

Normally I'd agree with you about being careful about taking a parable literally. However, the scripture quoted was not the parable, but Jesus' explanation of the parable. This lends itself to a more literal interpretation.

I don't do it that way. What I do is look at the context and then try to determine how it should be interpreted.

And the context here is not a parable, but the explanation of the parable. Agree or disagree?