23 Bible Verses about Jesus Using Parables

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear:

And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And Jesus, talking to them again in stories, said:

And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?

And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it:

All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.

And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories? And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.read more.
For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories;

And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.

All this I have said to you in veiled language: but the time is coming when I will no longer say things in veiled language but will give you knowledge of the Father clearly.

In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.

And when Jesus had come to the end of these stories he went away from there.

And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?

Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.

And when he was by himself, those who were round him with the twelve put questions to him about the purpose of the stories.

And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?

And Peter said to him, Lord, are these words said to us only, or to all men?

And when his stories came to the ears of the chief priests and the Pharisees, they saw that he was talking of them.

And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.

And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them.