"You must listen closely then to the figure of the sower.

Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field.

Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen."

Then he left the crowds and went into his house. And his disciples came up to him and said, "Explain to us the figure of the weeds in the field."

Peter said to him, "Explain the figure for us."

"Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood.

And he saith unto them, Whose figure is this and inscription?

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.

Startled by his statement, she tried to figure out what his greeting meant.

He used this figure also in speaking to them: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and sews it on an old one, or if he does, he will both tear the new one and the piece from the new one will not match the old one.

And the experts in the law of Moses were watching Him to see if He would heal [someone] on the Sabbath day, so they could figure out how to accuse Him.

And he used a figure saying, "Can one blind man lead another? Will they not both fall into a hole?

His disciples asked him what this figure meant.

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

Peter said to him, "Master, do you mean this figure for us, or is it for everybody?"

He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.

So in speaking to them he used this figure:

Show me a denarius [14 cents]. Whose figure and inscription has it? And they answered and said, Caesar's.

This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.

His disciples *said, “Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using a figure of speech.

'The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;

After three months, we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the island. She was an Alexandrian vessel, and had the Twin Sons of Zeus for her figure-head.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

Now these things happened to them as an example and warning [to us]; they were written for our instruction [to admonish and equip us], upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

they who desire to make a figure in the world, constrain you to be circumcised, only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message could be fully proclaimed and that all the Gentiles could hear it. And I was rescued from the lion's mouth. [Note: This is probably a figure of speech indicating that Paul had escaped some immediate danger. See Psa. 22:20-21].

Who being the brightness of glory, and the figure of his foundation, and bearing all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty among the highest ones;

who perform the service after the figure and shadow of things in the heavens, as Moses was divinely instructed, when he was about to finish the tabernacle. "For see," saith God, "that thou make all things according to the model shewed thee on the mount."

which is a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect,

accounting that God is able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.

Baptism, which corresponds to this figure, now saves you, too -- I do not mean the mere removal of physical stains, but the craving for a clear conscience toward God -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

the figure of the locusts were like that of horses prepared to battle; but on their heads they had, as it were, crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.