'Similes' in the Bible

and he spake to them many things in similes, saying: 'Lo, the sower went forth to sow,

And the disciples having come near, said to him, 'Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?'

'Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,

All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, 'I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these similes, he removed thence,

And the chief priests and the Pharisees having heard his similes, knew that of them he speaketh,

And Jesus answering, again spake to them in similes, saying,