'Parables' in the Bible

Then He told them many things in parables, saying: “Consider the sower who went out to sow.

Then the disciples came up and asked Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and He would not speak anything to them without a parable,

so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:I will open My mouth in parables;I will declare things kept secretfrom the foundation of the world.

When Jesus had finished these parables, He left there.

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they knew He was speaking about them.

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables: