Matthew 13:34

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable.

Mark 4:33-34

With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;

John 16:25

“These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.

Matthew 13:13

Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

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Matthew 13:34

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

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Matthew 13:13

Mark 4:33

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Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;