'Parables' in the Bible
Then he began to tell them many things in parables. He said, "Listen! A farmer went out to sow.
Then the disciples came and asked Jesus, "Why do you speak to people in parables?"
That's why I speak to them in parables, because "they look but don't see, and they listen but don't hear or understand.'
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
This was to fulfill what was declared by the prophet when he said, "I will open my mouth to speak in parables. I will declare what has been hidden since the creation of the world."
When Jesus had finished these parables, he left that place.
When the high priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was talking about them.
So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables. "How can Satan drive out Satan?
He began teaching them many things in parables. While he was teaching them he said,
When he was alone with the Twelve and those around him, they began to ask him about the parables.
He told them, "The secret about the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside, everything comes in parables
Then he told them, "You don't understand this parable, so how can you understand any of the parables?
With many other parables like these, Jesus kept speaking his message to them according to their ability to understand.
Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.
So he said, "You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom of God. But to others they are given in parables, so that "they might look but not see, and they might listen but not understand.'"