'Simile' in the Bible

And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,

And he saith to them, 'Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

And he said, 'To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it?

and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples were questioning him about the simile,

And they were seeking to lay hold on him, and they feared the multitude, for they knew that against them he spake the simile, and having left him, they went away;

'And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: when the branch may already become tender, and may put forth the leaves, ye know that nigh is the summer;