Mark 12:1
Then He began to speak to them in figurative language. "There was once a man," He said, "who planted a vineyard, fenced it round, dug a pit for the wine-tank, and built a strong lodge. Then he let the place to vine-dressers and went abroad.
Matthew 25:14
"Why, it is like a man who, when going on his travels, called his bondservants and entrusted his property to their care.
Mark 4:2
Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language; and in His teaching He said,
Mark 4:11-13
"To you," He replied, "has been entrusted the secret truth concerning the Kingdom of God; but to those others outside your number all this is spoken in figurative language;
Mark 4:33-34
With many such parables He used to speak the Message to them according to their capacity for receiving it.
Mark 13:34
It is like a man living abroad who has left his house, and given the management to his servants--to each one his special duty--and has ordered the porter to keep awake.
Matthew 13:10-15
(And His disciples came and asked Him, "Why do you speak to them in figurative language?"
Matthew 13:34-35
All this Jesus spoke to the people in figurative language, and except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them,
Matthew 21:28-14
"But give me your judgement. There was a man who had two sons. He came to the elder of them, and said, "'My son, go and work in the vineyard to-day.'
Mark 12:1-12
Then He began to speak to them in figurative language. "There was once a man," He said, "who planted a vineyard, fenced it round, dug a pit for the wine-tank, and built a strong lodge. Then he let the place to vine-dressers and went abroad.
Luke 8:10
"To you," He replied, "it is granted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God; but all others are taught by parables, in order that they may see and yet not see, and may hear and yet not understand.
Luke 13:6-9
And He gave them the following parable. "A man," He said, "who had a fig-tree growing in his garden came to look for fruit on it and could find none.
Luke 15:13
No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.
Luke 19:12
So He said to them, "A man of noble family travelled to a distant country to obtain the rank of king, and to return.
Luke 20:9-19
Then He proceeded to speak a parable to the people. "There was a man," He said, "who planted a vineyard, let it out to vine-dressers, and went abroad for a considerable time.
Luke 22:9
"Where shall we prepare it?" they asked.
John 15:1-8
"I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.
Acts 7:38
This is he who was among the Congregation in the Desert, together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our forefathers, who received ever-living utterances to hand on to us.
Acts 7:46-47
David obtained favour with God, and asked leave to provide a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob.
Romans 3:1-2
What special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or what benefit is to be derived from circumcision?
Romans 9:4-5
To them belongs recognition as God's sons, and they have His glorious Presence and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the Temple service, and the ancient Promises.
Romans 11:17-24
And if some of the branches have been pruned away, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among them and have become a sharer with others in the rich sap of the root of the olive tree,