And Jesus said, "If you do not understand this figure, then how will you understand my other figures?

"How can we find any comparison," he said, "for the reign of God, or what figure can we use to describe it?

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples asked him what he meant by this figure.

And they brought him one. And he said to them, Whose is this figure, and the inscription? And they said to him, Caesar's.

After that, he appeared unto two of them in a strange figure, as they walked and went into the country.