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Matthew 13:10-13
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And the disciples approached and said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in parables?"
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He answered and said to them, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
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For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he shall be in abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.
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Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
Matthew 13:34-13
Matthew 13:35-13
Matthew 13:53-13
Matthew 22:1
And Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying,
Matthew 24:32
"Now learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch already becomes tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near.
Judges 9:8-20
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The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive, Reign over us.
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But the olives said to them, Shall I leave my fatness, with which men shall glorify God, and go to be promoted over the trees?
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And the trees said to the fig tree, Come, reign over us.
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But the fig tree said to them, Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruits, and go to be promoted over the trees?
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And the trees said to the vine, Come, reign over us.
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And the vine said to them, Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men, and go to be promoted over the trees?
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Then all the trees said to the bramble, Come, and reign over us.
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And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me to reign over you, come, stand under my shadow; and if not, let fire come out from me and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
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And now, if you have done it in truth and integrity, and have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal, and with his house, and if you have done to him according to the reward of his hand,
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as my father fought for you, and put his life in jeopardy, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
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and you have risen up this day against the house of my father, and have slain his sons, being seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech the son of his bondwoman king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother:
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if then you have done truly and faithfully with Jerubbaal, and with his house this day, [then] rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice over you.
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But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Beth Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Beth Millo, and devour Abimelech.
2 Samuel 12:1-7
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And the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to David; and he went in to him, and said to him, There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor.
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And the rich [man] had very many flocks and herds.
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But the poor [man had] only one little ewe lamb, which he had purchased, and preserved, and reared; and it grew up with himself and his children in common; it ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and slept in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter.
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And a traveler came to the rich man, and he refused to take of his flocks and of his herds, to prepare for the traveler that came to him; and he took the poor man's lamb, and prepared it for the man that came to him.
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And David was greatly moved with anger against the man; and David said to Nathan, [As] the Lord lives, the man that did this thing shall surely die.
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And he shall restore the lamb seven-fold, because he has not spared.
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And Nathan said to David, You are the man that has done this! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: I anointed you to be king over Israel, and I rescued you out the hand of Saul;
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my riddle on the harp.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter dark sayings [which have been] from the beginning.
Isaiah 5:1-7
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Now I will sing to [my] Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. [My] Beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place.
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And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine vat in it; and I waited [for it] to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.
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And now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and [every] man of Judah, judge between Me and My vineyard.
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What shall I do anymore to My vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas I expected [it] to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns.
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And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be [left] to be trodden down.
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And I will forsake My vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.
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For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah [His] beloved plant; I expected [it] to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.
Ezekiel 17:2
Son of man, relate a tale, and speak a parable to the house of Israel:
Ezekiel 20:49
And I said, Not so, O Lord God! They say to me, Is not this that is spoken a parable?
Ezekiel 24:3-14
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And speak a parable to the provoking house, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Set on the caldron, and pour water into it,
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and put the pieces into it, every prime piece, the leg and shoulder taken off from the bones,
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[which are] taken from choice cattle, and burn the bones under them; her bones are boiled and cooked in the midst of her.
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Therefore thus says the Lord: O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.
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For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock; I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it;
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that My wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken; I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it.
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Therefore thus says the Lord: I will also make the firebrand great,
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and I will multiply the wood, and kindle the fire, that the flesh may be consumed, and the liquor boiled away;
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and that [it] may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed,
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and her abundant scum may not come forth from her.
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Her scum shall become shameful, because you defiled yourself; and what if you shall be purged no more until I have accomplished My wrath?
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I the Lord have spoken; and it shall come, and I will do [it]; I will not delay, neither will I have any mercy: I will judge you, says the Lord, according to your ways, and according to your devices. Therefore will I judge you according to your bloodshed, and according to your devices will I judge you, you unclean, notorious, and abundantly provoking one.
Micah 2:4
In that day shall a parable be taken up against you, and a plaintive lamentation shall be uttered, saying, We are thoroughly miserable: the portion of my people has been measured out with a line, and there was none to hinder him so as to turn him back; your fields have been divided.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up a parable against him? And a proverb to tell against him? And they shall say, Woe to him that multiplies to himself the possessions which are not his! How long? And who heavily loads his yoke.
Mark 3:23
And having summoned them, he began to say to them in parables: "How is Satan able to cast out Satan?
Mark 4:2
And He was teaching them many [things] by parables, and said to them in His teaching:
Mark 4:13
And He said to them, "Do you not know this parable? How then will you know all the parables?
Mark 4:33
And by many such parables He would speak the word to them, just as they were able to hear it.
Mark 12:1
Then He began to speak to them with parables: "A man planted a vineyard and set a fence around it, dug a wine vat and built a tower. And he leased it to farmers, and went on a journey.
Mark 12:12
And they sought to lay hold of Him, but they feared the crowd, for they knew that He has spoken the parable against them. And leaving Him, they went away.
Luke 8:10
And He said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest [they are] in parables, that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
Luke 12:41
Then Peter said to Him, "Lord, do You speak this parable only to us, or to all [people]?"
Luke 15:3-7
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And He told them this parable, saying:
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What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and goes after the one having been lost until he finds it?
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And having found it, he puts [it] on his own shoulders, rejoicing.
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And coming into the house, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'
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I say to you that likewise [there] shall be more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting than over ninety-nine righteous who need no repentance.
John 16:25
"These things I have spoken to you in figures of speech; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
a sower
Mark 4:2-9
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And He was teaching them many [things] by parables, and said to them in His teaching:
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"Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.
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And it happened, as he sowed, that some [seed] fell alongside the road; and the birds came and devoured it.
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And some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.
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But when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it had no root it was withered up.
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And some [seed] fell into the thorns; and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
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But other [seed] fell on good ground and it was yielding fruit coming up and growing, and it was producing--some thirty[fold], some sixty, and some a hundred."
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And He said, "He that has ears to hear, let him hear!"
Luke 8:5-8
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A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell alongside the road; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it.
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And other [seed] fell on rock; and when it grew up, it withered away because it had no moisture.
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And other [seed] fell among thorns, and when the thorns grew up with it, they choked it.
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But other [seed] fell into good ground, and when it grew up, it produced fruit a hundredfold." Saying these things He was calling out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"