Parables

I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

…by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”

I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.

And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed.

Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do You speak to the people in parables?”

This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

When Jesus had finished these parables, He withdrew from that place.

When the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they knew that Jesus was speaking about them.

Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables:

So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

And He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said,

He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,

Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?

With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand.

Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’