Matthew 13:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And He told them many things in parables (stories by way of illustration and comparison), saying, A sower went out to sow.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow;

Common English Bible

³ He said many things to them in parables: “A farmer went out to scatter seed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying: "Behold, a sower went out to sow seed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

Matthew 13:3 Cross References

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

Ezekiel 17:2

“Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak an allegory to the house of Israel;

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! they are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”

Micah 2:4

In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he divides our fields.”

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, in scoffing derision of him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”

Matthew 13:4

And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.

Matthew 13:53

And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there,

Matthew 22:1

And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying,

Matthew 24:32

“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.

Mark 12:1

And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.

Mark 12:12

And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them; so they left him and went away.

Mark 3:23

And he called them to him, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

Mark 4:13

And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

Mark 4:33

With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it;

Luke 12:41

Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?”

Luke 8:10

he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

John 16:25

“I have said this to you in figures; the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father.