Matthew 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
Matthew 13:10-13
The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
Matthew 13:53
It happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.
Mark 4:2-9
He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
Mark 4:13
He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
Mark 4:33
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
Judges 9:8-20
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
2 Samuel 12:1-7
Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
Isaiah 5:1-7
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
Ezekiel 17:2
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?
Ezekiel 24:3-14
Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
Micah 2:4
In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"
Habakkuk 2:6
Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'
Matthew 22:1
Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,
Matthew 24:32
"Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
Mark 3:23
He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
Mark 12:1
He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
Mark 12:12
They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
Luke 8:5-8
"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
Luke 8:10
He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
Luke 12:41
Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"
Luke 15:3-7
He told them this parable.
John 16:25
I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.