When speaking of Jacob 5 Joseph Fielding Smith said, “No greater parable was ever recorded” Context Just before Jacobs speaks the allegory of the olive trees, he shares something about the “unsearchableness of God” saying, Behold, great and marvelous are the works of the Lord. How unsearchable are the depths of the mysteries of him; and it is impossible that man should find out all his ways. And no man knoweth of his ways save it be revealed unto him; wherefore, brethren, despise not the revelations of God.