Mark 12:1
Then He began to speak to them in stories. "A man once planted a vineyard and fenced it in and hewed out a wine-vat and built a watchtower; then he rented it to tenant farmers, and went abroad.
Matthew 25:14
"For it is just like a man who was going on a long journey from his homeland, who called to him his slaves and turned his property over to them.
Mark 4:2
He continued teaching them by many stories. In His teaching He spoke to them as follows:
Mark 4:11-13
Then He said to them, "To you the secret of the kingdom of God has been entrusted, but to those who are on the outside everything is presented in stories, so that
Mark 4:33-34
With many stories like these He kept on telling them the message, as far as they could understand it.
Mark 13:34
It will be like a man who leaves his home and goes on a journey, after he has given orders to his slaves, to each his particular task, and has given orders to the watchman to keep watch.
Matthew 13:10-15
Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Why do you speak to them in stories?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus told the crowds all this in stories, and without a story He told them nothing,
Matthew 21:28-14
"But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons, He came to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in my vineyard today.'
Mark 12:1-12
Then He began to speak to them in stories. "A man once planted a vineyard and fenced it in and hewed out a wine-vat and built a watchtower; then he rented it to tenant farmers, and went abroad.
Luke 8:10
So He said, "You are granted the privilege of knowing the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others they are told in stories, so that they may look and not see, may hear and not understand.
Luke 13:6-9
Then He told them this story: "A man had a fig tree planted by his vineyard, and he kept going and looking for figs on it, but did not find any.
Luke 15:13
Not many days after that, the younger son got together all he had and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered all his property by living in dissipation.
Luke 19:12
So He said: "Once upon a time a man of noble birth went off to a distant country to get for himself a kingdom and then return.
Luke 20:9-19
Then He went on to tell the people the following story: "Once upon a time a man planted a vineyard and leased it to tenant farmers, and then went abroad for a long stay.
Luke 22:9
They asked Him, "Where do you wish us to prepare it?"
John 15:1-8
"I am the real vine, and my Father is the cultivator.
Acts 7:38
This is the one who in the congregation in the desert went between the angel, who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and our forefathers, who also received, to be handed down to you, utterances that still live.
Acts 7:46-47
He found favor with God and begged to design a dwelling for the God of Jacob,
Romans 3:1-2
What special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or, what benefit does circumcision confer?
Romans 9:4-5
For they are Israelites; to them belong the privileges of sonship, God's glorious presence, the special covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, the promises,
Romans 11:17-24
If some of the branches have been broken off, and yet you, although you were wild olive suckers, have been grafted in among the native branches, and been made to share the rich sap of the native olive's root,