These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. {proverbs: or, parables}

And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear {it}.

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear {it}.

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. {the interpretation: or, an eloquent speech}

And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,

These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. {proverbs: or, parables}

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

What I tell you in darkness, {that} speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, {that} preach ye upon the housetops.

And he called them {unto him}, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find {it} out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments: {sheets: or, shirts}

And he began to speak unto them by parables. A {certain} man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about {it}, and digged {a place for} the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,