When they saw this, they informed them of the story that had been told about this child.

His winnowing-fork is in His hand, and He will clean out His threshing-floor, and store His wheat in His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with fire inextinguishable."

Then He told them a short story: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and puts it on an old one; or if he does, he will tear the new one too, and the patch from the new coat will not match the old one.

Then He told them a story: "Can one blind man lead another? Will they not both fall into the ditch?

This story about Him spread all over Judea and all the surrounding country.

Now as a great crowd was coming together and people were coming to Him from one town after another, He said by way of a story:

His disciples were asking Him what this story meant.

This is what the story means: The seed is God's message.

"You must store away in your memories these words, for the Son of Man is going to be turned over to the hands of men!"

Then He told them a story, as follows: "A certain rich man's lands yielded bountifully.

So he began to argue with himself, 'What am I to do, because I have nowhere to store my crops?'

Then he said, 'This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and in them I will store all my grains and my goods.

Peter said to Him, "Lord, do you mean this story for us, or is it for everybody?"

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.

When He noticed how the guests were picking out the best places, He told them the following story:

So He told them the following story:

It was the law and the prophets until John, but ever since that time the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everybody has been taking it by storm.

Now He told them the following story to show how necessary it is for people always to pray and never to give up:

To some people who were confident that they themselves were upright, but who scorned everybody else, He told the following story:

As they were listening to these things, He told them another story, because He was near Jerusalem and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.

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.

Then the scribes and the high priests tried to arrest Him at that very hour, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that He meant this story for them.

Then He told them a story: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees.