'Comparisons' in the Bible
My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.
When Jesus had finished these parables, He left there.
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was talking about them.
So He called them to Himself and spoke to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan?
And He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said to them,
Jesus began to speak to them [the chief priests, scribes and elders who were questioning Him] in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; and he rented it out to tenant farmers and left the country.
For our momentary, light distress [this passing trouble] is producing for us an eternal weight of glory [a fullness] beyond all measure [surpassing all comparisons, a transcendent splendor and an endless blessedness]!