Matthew 13:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 49:4

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

Psalm 78:2

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

Ezekiel 17:2

O mortal, 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

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

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not everyone taunt such people and, with mocking riddles, say about them, “Alas for you who heap up what is not your own!” How long will you load yourselves with goods taken in pledge?

Matthew 13:4

And as he sowed, some seeds fell on a path, and the birds came and ate them up.

Matthew 13:53

When Jesus had finished these parables, he left that place.

Matthew 22:1

Once more 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

Then he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the winepress, and built a watchtower; then he leased it to tenants and went away.

Mark 12:12

When they realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowd. So they left him and went away.

Mark 3:23

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

Mark 4:13

And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how 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 everyone?”

Luke 8:10

He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others I speak in parables, so that ‘looking they may not perceive and hearing they may not understand.’

John 16:25

“I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but will tell you plainly of the Father.