'Parables' in the Bible

And having called them to him, he said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

And he taught them many things in parables. And he said to them in his doctrine,

And when he was alone, those about him with the twelve asked him as to the parables.

And he said to them, To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them who are without, all things are done in parables,

And he says to them, Do ye not know this parable? and how will ye be acquainted with all the parables?

And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear,

And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.