'Parables' in the Bible

Then he began to tell them many things in parables. He said, "Listen! A farmer went out to sow.

Then the disciples came and asked Jesus, "Why do you speak to people in parables?"

That's why I speak to them in parables, because "they look but don't see, and they listen but don't hear or understand.'

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

This was to fulfill what was declared by the prophet when he said, "I will open my mouth to speak in parables. I will declare what has been hidden since the creation of the world."

When Jesus had finished these parables, he left that place.

When the high priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was talking about them.

Again Jesus spoke to them in parables. He said,