I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the harp.
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. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow; Common English Bible He said many things to them in parables: “A farmer went out to scatter seed. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow. |
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the harp.
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
O mortal, propound a riddle and speak an allegory to the house of Israel.
Then I said, “Ah Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”
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.”
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?
And as he sowed, some seeds fell on a path, and the birds came and ate them up.
“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.
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.
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.
And he called them to him and spoke to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?
With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it;
Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for everyone?”
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.’
“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.