Matthew 13:3

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

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,

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

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;

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”

Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Put the cauldron on the fire. Put it on, and also pour water into it.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

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

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that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

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

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

“Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’

I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.

When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

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

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

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

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

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

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

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

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

If we should say, ‘From men’ ”—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.

But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

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,

For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

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

In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’ ”

Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

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

“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.

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

“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

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.

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

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

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

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.