'Parables' in the Bible

And he called them to himself [and] was speaking to them in parables, "How can Satan expel Satan?

And he began to teach them many [things] in parables, and was saying to them in his teaching,

And when he was alone, those around him together with the twelve began asking him about the parables.

And he said to them, "To you has been granted the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is in parables,

And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables?

And with many parables such as these he was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear [it].

And he began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around it], and dug a trough for the winepress, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.