'Parables' in the Bible

And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went out to sow:

And the disciples came up and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?

For this cause I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear nor understand;

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,

so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the world's foundation.

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these parables he withdrew thence.

And the chief priests and the Pharisees, having heard his parables, knew that he spoke about them.

And Jesus answering spoke to them again in parables, saying,