All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, {even} as unto babes in Christ.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

And he began to speak unto them by parables. A {certain} man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about {it}, and digged {a place for} the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

And it came to pass, {that} when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.

Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. {according...: Heb. according to the foot of the work, etc., and according to the foot of the children}

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,

And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,