'Stories' in the Bible

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?

And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories?

For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.

And when Jesus had come to the end of these stories he went away from there.

And when his stories came to the ears of the chief priests and the Pharisees, they saw that he was talking of them.

And Jesus, talking to them again in stories, said:

And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear:

And when he was by himself, those who were round him with the twelve put questions to him about the purpose of the stories.

And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories;

And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it:

And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.

And Herod said, I put John to death: but who is this, of whom such stories are given to me? And he had a desire to see him.

Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

But have nothing to do with unclean and foolish stories. Give yourself training in religion:

And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:

For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory.