'Parables' in the Bible

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

And the disciples came up [and] said to him, "{Why} do you speak to them in parables?"

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

Jesus spoke all these [things] to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable,

in order that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, who said, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden since the creation."

And it happened that when Jesus had finished these parables he went away from there.

And [when] the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them,

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

And he called them to himself [and] was speaking to them in parables, "How can Satan expel Satan?

And he began to teach them many [things] in parables, and was saying to them in his teaching,

And when he was alone, those around him together with the twelve began asking him about the parables.

And he said to them, "To you has been granted the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is in parables,

And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables?

And with many parables such as these he was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear [it].

And he began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around it], and dug a trough for the winepress, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.

And he said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest [they are] in parables, so that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'