I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
Matthew 13:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, *Behold, a farmer went out to sow. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 open my riddle on the harp.
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Yisra'el;
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?
In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'*
Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'
As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
It happened that when Yeshua had finished these parables, he departed from there.
*Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
He began to speak to them in parables. *A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
He summoned them, and said to them in parables, *How can Hasatan cast out Hasatan?
He said to them, *Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
Kefa said to him, *Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?*
He said, *To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.