Then I said, Ah Lord the LORD! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?
I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
It happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,
to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
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