Matthew 13:53

and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

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

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.

All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

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

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

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,

Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

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?’

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

When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

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

When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

“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.

When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples,

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,

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.

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.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

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?”

They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”

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.