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 when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.

Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

And he said unto them, These {are} the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and {in} the prophets, and {in} the psalms, concerning me.

And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, {it} cannot defile him;

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

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

{And} how I kept back nothing that was profitable {unto you}, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,

And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, {it} cannot defile him;

Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.

And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.

And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,

And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.