'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,

And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, 'How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?

and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:

and he said to them, 'To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;

And he saith to them, 'Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,

And he began to speak to them in similes: 'A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-wine-vat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad;

And he said, 'To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of God, and to the rest in similes; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.