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for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
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Then I said, “Sovereign Lord, they are saying of me, ‘Isn’t he just telling parables?’”
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I spoke to the prophets, gave them many visions and told parables through them.”
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Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed.
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The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
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This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
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The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast
He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.
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Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.
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So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”
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The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
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A Prophet Without Honor
When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there.
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When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them.
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The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
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So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?
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He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said:
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When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables.
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He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables
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With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand.
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The Parable of the Tenants
Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.
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He said, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, “‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’
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The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast
Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to?
