Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

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Bible References

Doth

Matthew 13:13
For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.
John 16:25
“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
Acts 17:18
Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?”

Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.

General references

Ezekiel 17:2
“Son of man, pose a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 24:19
Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?”

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