'Story' in the Bible
The swineherds fled, and went and told the whole story in the town, including what had happened to the demoniacs.
And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;
Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.
And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:
He gave them another parable [to consider], saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;
Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:
Then he went away from the people, and went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Make clear to us the story of the evil plants in the field.
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been spread among Jewish people to this day.
But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.
And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?
And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?
And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?
And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.
And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.
As for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?
All who heard the story treasured it in their memories. "What then will this child be?" they said. For the lord's hand was indeed with him.
And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.
And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?
And this story about him went through all Judaea and the places round about.
And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story:
And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.
Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.
“Return home and tell [about] all the great things God has done for you.” So the man went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.
And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:
And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.
And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,
And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:
And while they were giving ear to these words, he made another story for them, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they were of the opinion that the kingdom of God was coming straight away.
Then He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time [to another country].
And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them.
Even Moses demonstrated in the story about the bush that the dead are raised, when he calls the Lord, "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'
And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees;
But the whole story seemed to them an idle tale; they could not believe the women.
And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.
In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.
And they, upon hearing the story, all lifted up their voices to God and said, "O Sovereign Lord, it is Thou who didst make Heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them,
the story, I mean, which has spread through the length and breadth of Judaea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism which John proclaimed.
So they set out, being accompanied for a short distance by some other members of the Church; and as they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told the whole story of the conversion of the Gentiles and inspired all the brethren with great joy.
and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on speaking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.
My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.
And as they were there for some days, Festus gave them Paul's story, saying, There is a certain man here who was put in prison by Felix:
God has not rejected his people whom he chose long ago. Do you not know what the Scripture says in the story about Elijah, when he pleads with God against Israel?
For the message of the cross is foolishness [absurd and illogical] to those who are perishing and spiritually dead [because they reject it], but to us who are being saved [by God’s grace] it is [the manifestation of] the power of God.
And why need I say more? For time will fail me if I tell the story of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, and of David and Samuel and the Prophets;
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.