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
Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
John 16:25
“These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.
Acts 17:18
And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What would this idle babbler wish to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

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Ezekiel 17:2
“Son of man, propound a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel,
Ezekiel 24:19
The people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?”

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