Matthew 24:32

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

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 came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.

My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.

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

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,

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.”

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples.

Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

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?’ ”

His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

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?’

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

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

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

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?”

saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

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.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

“Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?