John 11:14

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”

Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”

But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”

As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

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

His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.

Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”