'Parables' in the Bible

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not just speaking parables?’”

I have also spoken to the prophets,And I gave numerous visions,And through the prophets I gave parables.

And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow;

And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

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

This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:“I will open My mouth in parables;I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

When Jesus had finished these parables, He departed from there.

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

Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,

And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables,

And He *said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?

With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;

And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

And He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.