Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
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Doth
Matthew 13:13 This is the reason I speak to the crowds in parables: because while [having the power of] seeing they do not see, and while [having the power of] hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand and grasp [spiritual things].
John 16:25 “I have told you these things in figurative language (veiled language, proverbs); the hour is now coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
Acts 17:18
And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to engage in conversation with him. And some said, “What could this idle babbler [with his eclectic, scrap-heap learning] have in mind to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities”—because he was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
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Ezekiel 17:2
“Son of man, ask a riddle and tell a parable to the house of Israel,
Ezekiel 24:19
The people said to me, “These things that you are doing—tell us, what do they mean for us?”