'Parables' in the Bible
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
It happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,