'Parables' in the Bible

And he spoke many [things] to them in parables, saying, "Behold, the sower went out to sow,

And the disciples came up [and] said to him, "{Why} do you speak to them in parables?"

For this [reason] I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand,

Jesus spoke all these [things] to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable,

in order that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, who said, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden since the creation."

And it happened that when Jesus had finished these parables he went away from there.

And [when] the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them,

And continuing, Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,