Mark 12:1
Then he began to speak to them in figures. "A man once planted a vineyard and fenced it in and hewed out a wine-vat and built a watch tower, and he leased it to tenants and left the neighborhood.
Matthew 25:14
"For it is just like a man who was going on a journey, and called in his slaves, and put his property in their hands.
Mark 4:2
He taught them many lessons in figures, and said to them in the course of his teaching,
Mark 4:11-13
And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,
Mark 4:33-34
With many such figures he told them the message, as far as they were able to receive it.
Mark 13:34
just as a man when he leaves home to go on a journey, and puts his slaves in charge, each with his duties, gives orders to the watchman to keep watch.
Matthew 13:10-15
His disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in figures?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus said all this to the crowds in figures, and told them nothing except in figures,
Matthew 21:28-14
But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'My son, go and work in the vineyard today.'
Mark 12:1-12
Then he began to speak to them in figures. "A man once planted a vineyard and fenced it in and hewed out a wine-vat and built a watch tower, and he leased it to tenants and left the neighborhood.
Luke 8:10
And he said, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but they are given to others in the form of figures, so that they may look and yet not see, and hear and yet not understand.
Luke 13:6-9
He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.
Luke 15:13
Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.
Luke 19:12
So he said, "A nobleman once went to a distant country to secure his appointment to a kingdom and then return.
Luke 20:9-19
Then he went on to give the people this illustration: "A man once planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenants, and went away for along absence.
Luke 22:9
They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?"
John 15:1-8
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator.
Acts 7:38
It was he who with the congregation in the desert went between the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and our forefathers, and received and communicated to you utterances that still live.
Acts 7:46-47
He won the approval of God and begged to be allowed to provide a dwelling for the God of Jacob,
Romans 3:1-2
What advantage is there then in being a Jew, and what is the use of circumcision?
Romans 9:4-5
For they are Israelites, and to them belong the rights of sonship, God's glorious presence, the divine agreements and legislation, the Temple service, the promises,
Romans 11:17-24
If some of the branches have been broken off, and you who were only a wild olive shoot have been grafted in, in place of them, and made to share the richness of the olive's root,