I will turn my ear to a proverb. I will explain my riddle on the harp.
Matthew 13:3 - Y'all Version Bible He told to them many things in parables, saying, “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 turn my ear to a proverb. I will explain my riddle on the harp.
“Son of humanity, pose a riddle, and tell a parable to the house of Israel;
Then I said, “Ah Lord YHWH! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’”
In that day they will take up a parable against y’all, and lament with a mournful lamentation, saying, ‘We are destroyed-destroyed! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’”
Will not all these take up a taunt against him, and a mocking riddle 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.
“Now from the fig tree y’all are to learn this parable: When its branch becomes tender and produces its leaves, y’all 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 wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some farmers and went into another country.
Then they tried to seize him, but they feared the crowd, for they perceived that he spoken the parable against them. They left him and went away.
So he summoned them and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
He said to them, “Don’t y’all understand this parable? How will y’all understand any parables?
With many parables like these he spoke the word to them, as much as they were able to hear it.
Then Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
He said, “The mysteries of the Empire of God have been given to y’all to know, but to the others, it is given in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
“I have told y’all these things using figures of speech. But the time is coming when I won’t use figures of speech, but will tell y’all plainly about the Father.