23 Bible Verses about Jesus Using Parables

And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Listen, a farmer went out to sow.

And then he taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went on a journey.

Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,

And so he summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; and without a parable, he did not speak to them,

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing, they do not hear, neither do they understand.

Without a parable he did not speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" And he answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever does not have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.read more.
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing, they do not hear, neither do they understand.

And he said to them, "To you has been given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the hour is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they did not understand what he was telling them.

And it happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.

And he said, "To what will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we use for it?

Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."

And when he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.

They tried to seize him, but they feared the crowd; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people?for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.