'Comparison' in the Bible

But what comparison may I make of this generation? It is like children seated in the market-places, crying out to one another,

He told them many things in parables, saying, “Listen carefully: a sower went out to sow [seed in his field];

He gave them another parable [to consider], saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;