John 18:19

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

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

The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.

Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”

Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

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

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.

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

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.

In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,

As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.