nSee Rom. 16:25
Psalms 49:4
4I will incline my ear to aa proverb;I will solve my briddle to the music of the lyre.
Psalms 78:2
2 cI will open my mouth din a parable;I will utter dark sayings from of old,
Matthew 13:3
3And ehe told them many things in parables, saying: f“A sower went out to sow.Matthew 13:10
The Purpose of the Parables
10Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”Matthew 13:34-35
Prophecy and Parables
34 gAll these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable. 35This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: ▼▼Some manuscripts Isaiah the prophet
i“I will open my mouth in parables;
jI will utter what has been hidden ksince the foundation of the world.”
Mark 3:23
23 lAnd he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?Mark 4:11
11And he said to them, m“To you has been given nthe secret of the kingdom of God, but for othose outside everything is in parables,Mark 4:34
34He did not speak to them pwithout a parable, but qprivately to his own disciples he rexplained everything.
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