'Parables' in the Bible

He told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow.

Then the disciples came to him and said, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.

This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world."

Now when Jesus finished these parables, he moved on from there.

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.

Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: