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13:3 CSB
Parallel Verses
  • Christian Standard Bible - Then he told them many things in parables, saying, “Consider the sower who went out to sow.
  • 新标点和合本 - 他用比喻对他们讲许多道理,说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种;
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 他用比喻对他们讲了许多话。他说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 他用比喻对他们讲了许多话。他说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • 当代译本 - 祂用比喻给他们讲许多道理,说:“有一个农夫出去撒种。
  • 圣经新译本 - 他用比喻对众人讲了许多事,说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • 中文标准译本 - 耶稣用比喻对他们讲了很多事。他说:“看哪,有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • 现代标点和合本 - 他用比喻对他们讲许多道理,说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 他用比喻对他们讲许多道理,说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • New International Version - Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed.
  • New International Reader's Version - Then he told them many things using stories. He said, “A farmer went out to plant his seed.
  • English Standard Version - And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.
  • New Living Translation - He told many stories in the form of parables, such as this one: “Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seeds.
  • The Message - “What do you make of this? A farmer planted seed. As he scattered the seed, some of it fell on the road, and birds ate it. Some fell in the gravel; it sprouted quickly but didn’t put down roots, so when the sun came up it withered just as quickly. Some fell in the weeds; as it came up, it was strangled by the weeds. Some fell on good earth, and produced a harvest beyond his wildest dreams.
  • New American Standard Bible - And He told them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow;
  • New King James Version - Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow.
  • Amplified Bible - He told them many things in parables, saying, “Listen carefully: a sower went out to sow [seed in his field];
  • American Standard Version - And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow;
  • King James Version - And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
  • New English Translation - He told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow.
  • World English Bible - He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
  • 新標點和合本 - 他用比喻對他們講許多道理,說:「有一個撒種的出去撒種;
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 他用比喻對他們講了許多話。他說:「有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 他用比喻對他們講了許多話。他說:「有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 當代譯本 - 祂用比喻給他們講許多道理,說:「有一個農夫出去撒種。
  • 聖經新譯本 - 他用比喻對眾人講了許多事,說:“有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 呂振中譯本 - 他就用比喻對他們講許多道理,說:『看哪,有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 中文標準譯本 - 耶穌用比喻對他們講了很多事。他說:「看哪,有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 現代標點和合本 - 他用比喻對他們講許多道理,說:「有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 乃多端設喻語之、曰、有播種者、出而播種、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 乃多端設譬曰、有播種者出而播種、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 耶穌多端設喻語之曰、有播種者出而播種、
  • 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 乃多方設喻而訓之曰:『有農人出而播種、
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - Y les dijo en parábolas muchas cosas como estas: «Un sembrador salió a sembrar.
  • 현대인의 성경 - 그때 예수님은 여러 가지 비유를 들어 그들에게 많은 것을 말씀하셨다. “한 농부가 들에 나가
  • Новый Русский Перевод - И Он о многом говорил им в притчах. – Сеятель вышел сеять, – говорил Он. –
  • Восточный перевод - И Он о многом говорил им в притчах. – Сеятель вышел сеять, – говорил Иса. –
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - И Он о многом говорил им в притчах. – Сеятель вышел сеять, – говорил Иса. –
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - И Он о многом говорил им в притчах. – Сеятель вышел сеять, – говорил Исо. –
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Il prit la parole et leur exposa bien des choses sous forme de paraboles. Il leur dit : Un semeur sortit pour semer.
  • Nestle Aland 28 - Καὶ ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς πολλὰ ἐν παραβολαῖς λέγων· ἰδοὺ ἐξῆλθεν ὁ σπείρων τοῦ σπείρειν.
  • unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - καὶ ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς πολλὰ ἐν παραβολαῖς λέγων, ἰδοὺ, ἐξῆλθεν ὁ σπείρων τοῦ σπείρειν.
  • Nova Versão Internacional - Jesus falou muitas coisas por parábolas, dizendo: “O semeador saiu a semear.
  • Hoffnung für alle - Was er ihnen zu sagen hatte, erklärte er durch Gleichnisse: »Ein Bauer ging aufs Feld, um Getreide zu säen.
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúa dùng nhiều ẩn dụ dạy dỗ họ: “Một người ra đồng gieo lúa.
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - แล้วพระองค์ตรัสหลายสิ่งกับพวกเขาเป็นคำอุปมาเช่น “ชาวนาคนหนึ่งออกไปหว่านเมล็ดพืช
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระ​องค์​กล่าว​เป็น​อุปมา​ให้​เขา​เหล่า​นั้น​ฟัง​หลาย​ต่อ​หลาย​เรื่อง​ว่า “ชาวไร่​คนหนึ่ง​ออกไป​หว่าน​เมล็ดพืช
Cross Reference
  • Ezekiel 24:3 - Now speak a parable to the rebellious house. Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Put the pot on the fire — put it on, and then pour water into it!
  • Ezekiel 24:4 - Place the pieces of meat in it, every good piece — thigh and shoulder. Fill it with choice bones.
  • Ezekiel 24:5 - Take the choicest of the flock and also pile up the fuel under it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.
  • Ezekiel 24:6 - “‘Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, the pot that has corrosion inside it, and its corrosion has not come out of it! Empty it piece by piece; lots should not be cast for its contents.
  • Ezekiel 24:7 - For the blood she shed is still within her. She put it out on the bare rock; she didn’t pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.
  • Ezekiel 24:8 - In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have put her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.
  • Ezekiel 24:9 - “‘Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I myself will make the pile of kindling large.
  • Ezekiel 24:10 - Pile on the logs and kindle the fire! Cook the meat well and mix in the spices! Let the bones be burned!
  • Ezekiel 24:11 - Set the empty pot on its coals so that it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt inside it; its corrosion will be consumed.
  • Ezekiel 24:12 - It has frustrated every effort; its thick corrosion will not come off. Into the fire with its corrosion!
  • Ezekiel 24:13 - Because of the depravity of your uncleanness — since I tried to purify you, but you would not be purified from your uncleanness — you will not be pure again until I have satisfied my wrath on you.
  • Ezekiel 24:14 - I, the Lord, have spoken. It is coming, and I will do it! I will not refrain, I will not show pity, and I will not relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds. This is the declaration of the Lord God.’”
  • Luke 8:10 - So he said, “The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that Looking they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
  • Matthew 24:32 - “Learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.
  • Ezekiel 17:2 - “Son of man, pose a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel.
  • Psalms 78:2 - I will declare wise sayings; I will speak mysteries from the past  —
  • Ezekiel 20:49 - Then I said, “Oh, Lord God, they are saying of me, ‘Isn’t he just composing parables?’”
  • Luke 12:41 - “Lord,” Peter asked, “are you telling this parable to us or to everyone?”
  • John 16:25 - “I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
  • Judges 9:8 - The trees decided to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, “Reign over us.”
  • Judges 9:9 - But the olive tree said to them, “Should I stop giving my oil that people use to honor both God and men, and rule over the trees?”
  • Judges 9:10 - Then the trees said to the fig tree, “Come and reign over us.”
  • Judges 9:11 - But the fig tree said to them, “Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, and rule over trees?”
  • Judges 9:12 - Later, the trees said to the grapevine, “Come and reign over us.”
  • Judges 9:13 - But the grapevine said to them, “Should I stop giving my wine that cheers both God and man, and rule over trees?”
  • Judges 9:14 - Finally, all the trees said to the bramble, “Come and reign over us.”
  • Judges 9:15 - The bramble said to the trees, “If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out from the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon.”
  • Judges 9:16 - “Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have rewarded him appropriately for what he did —
  • Judges 9:17 - for my father fought for you, risked his life, and rescued you from Midian,
  • Judges 9:18 - and now you have attacked my father’s family today, killed his seventy sons on top of a large stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, king over the citizens of Shechem ‘because he is your brother’ —
  • Judges 9:19 - so if you have acted faithfully and honestly with Jerubbaal and his house this day, rejoice in Abimelech and may he also rejoice in you.
  • Judges 9:20 - But if not, may fire come from Abimelech and consume the citizens of Shechem and Beth-millo, and may fire come from the citizens of Shechem and Beth-millo and consume Abimelech.”
  • Micah 2:4 - In that day one will take up a taunt against you and lament mournfully, saying, “We are totally ruined! He measures out the allotted land of my people. How he removes it from me! He allots our fields to traitors.”
  • Luke 15:3 - So he told them this parable:
  • Luke 15:4 - “What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?
  • Luke 15:5 - When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
  • Luke 15:6 - and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’
  • Luke 15:7 - I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don’t need repentance.
  • Mark 3:23 - So he summoned them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?
  • Isaiah 5:1 - I will sing about the one I love, a song about my loved one’s vineyard: The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
  • Isaiah 5:2 - He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the finest vines. He built a tower in the middle of it and even dug out a winepress there. He expected it to yield good grapes, but it yielded worthless grapes.
  • Isaiah 5:3 - So now, residents of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
  • Isaiah 5:4 - What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?
  • Isaiah 5:5 - Now I will tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
  • Isaiah 5:6 - I will make it a wasteland. It will not be pruned or weeded; thorns and briers will grow up. I will also give orders to the clouds that rain should not fall on it.
  • Isaiah 5:7 - For the vineyard of the Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.
  • Habakkuk 2:6 - Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles about him? They will say, “Woe to him who amasses what is not his — how much longer?  — and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.”
  • Mark 12:1 - He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
  • Psalms 49:4 - I turn my ear to a proverb; I explain my riddle with a lyre.
  • Matthew 22:1 - Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables:
  • Matthew 13:10 - Then the disciples came up and asked him, “Why are you speaking to them in parables?”
  • Matthew 13:11 - He answered, “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.
  • Matthew 13:12 - For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
  • Matthew 13:13 - That is why I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.
  • Luke 8:5 - “A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some seed fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
  • Luke 8:6 - Other seed fell on the rock; when it grew up, it withered away, since it lacked moisture.
  • Luke 8:7 - Other seed fell among thorns; the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
  • Luke 8:8 - Still other seed fell on good ground; when it grew up, it produced fruit: a hundred times what was sown.” As he said this, he called out, “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen.”
  • Mark 4:13 - Then he said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand all of the parables?
  • 2 Samuel 12:1 - So the Lord sent Nathan to David. When he arrived, he said to him: There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
  • 2 Samuel 12:2 - The rich man had very large flocks and herds,
  • 2 Samuel 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meager food she would eat, from his cup she would drink, and in his arms she would sleep. She was like a daughter to him.
  • 2 Samuel 12:4 - Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man could not bring himself to take one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.
  • 2 Samuel 12:5 - David was infuriated with the man and said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
  • 2 Samuel 12:6 - Because he has done this thing and shown no pity, he must pay four lambs for that lamb.”
  • 2 Samuel 12:7 - Nathan replied to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you from Saul.
  • Mark 4:33 - He was speaking the word to them with many parables like these, as they were able to understand.
  • Matthew 13:34 - Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and he did not tell them anything without a parable,
  • Matthew 13:35 - so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled: I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things kept secret from the foundation of the world.
  • Matthew 13:53 - When Jesus had finished these parables, he left there.
  • Mark 12:12 - They were looking for a way to arrest him but feared the crowd because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. So they left him and went away.
  • Mark 4:2 - He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them,
  • Mark 4:3 - “Listen! Consider the sower who went out to sow.
  • Mark 4:4 - As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
  • Mark 4:5 - Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn’t have much soil, and it grew up quickly, since the soil wasn’t deep.
  • Mark 4:6 - When the sun came up, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.
  • Mark 4:7 - Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it didn’t produce fruit.
  • Mark 4:8 - Still other seed fell on good ground and it grew up, producing fruit that increased thirty, sixty, and a hundred times.”
  • Mark 4:9 - Then he said, “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen.”
Parallel VersesCross Reference
  • Christian Standard Bible - Then he told them many things in parables, saying, “Consider the sower who went out to sow.
  • 新标点和合本 - 他用比喻对他们讲许多道理,说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种;
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 他用比喻对他们讲了许多话。他说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 他用比喻对他们讲了许多话。他说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • 当代译本 - 祂用比喻给他们讲许多道理,说:“有一个农夫出去撒种。
  • 圣经新译本 - 他用比喻对众人讲了许多事,说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • 中文标准译本 - 耶稣用比喻对他们讲了很多事。他说:“看哪,有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • 现代标点和合本 - 他用比喻对他们讲许多道理,说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 他用比喻对他们讲许多道理,说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种。
  • New International Version - Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed.
  • New International Reader's Version - Then he told them many things using stories. He said, “A farmer went out to plant his seed.
  • English Standard Version - And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.
  • New Living Translation - He told many stories in the form of parables, such as this one: “Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seeds.
  • The Message - “What do you make of this? A farmer planted seed. As he scattered the seed, some of it fell on the road, and birds ate it. Some fell in the gravel; it sprouted quickly but didn’t put down roots, so when the sun came up it withered just as quickly. Some fell in the weeds; as it came up, it was strangled by the weeds. Some fell on good earth, and produced a harvest beyond his wildest dreams.
  • New American Standard Bible - And He told them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow;
  • New King James Version - Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow.
  • Amplified Bible - He told them many things in parables, saying, “Listen carefully: a sower went out to sow [seed in his field];
  • American Standard Version - And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow;
  • King James Version - And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
  • New English Translation - He told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow.
  • World English Bible - He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
  • 新標點和合本 - 他用比喻對他們講許多道理,說:「有一個撒種的出去撒種;
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 他用比喻對他們講了許多話。他說:「有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 他用比喻對他們講了許多話。他說:「有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 當代譯本 - 祂用比喻給他們講許多道理,說:「有一個農夫出去撒種。
  • 聖經新譯本 - 他用比喻對眾人講了許多事,說:“有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 呂振中譯本 - 他就用比喻對他們講許多道理,說:『看哪,有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 中文標準譯本 - 耶穌用比喻對他們講了很多事。他說:「看哪,有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 現代標點和合本 - 他用比喻對他們講許多道理,說:「有一個撒種的出去撒種。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 乃多端設喻語之、曰、有播種者、出而播種、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 乃多端設譬曰、有播種者出而播種、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 耶穌多端設喻語之曰、有播種者出而播種、
  • 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 乃多方設喻而訓之曰:『有農人出而播種、
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - Y les dijo en parábolas muchas cosas como estas: «Un sembrador salió a sembrar.
  • 현대인의 성경 - 그때 예수님은 여러 가지 비유를 들어 그들에게 많은 것을 말씀하셨다. “한 농부가 들에 나가
  • Новый Русский Перевод - И Он о многом говорил им в притчах. – Сеятель вышел сеять, – говорил Он. –
  • Восточный перевод - И Он о многом говорил им в притчах. – Сеятель вышел сеять, – говорил Иса. –
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - И Он о многом говорил им в притчах. – Сеятель вышел сеять, – говорил Иса. –
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - И Он о многом говорил им в притчах. – Сеятель вышел сеять, – говорил Исо. –
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Il prit la parole et leur exposa bien des choses sous forme de paraboles. Il leur dit : Un semeur sortit pour semer.
  • Nestle Aland 28 - Καὶ ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς πολλὰ ἐν παραβολαῖς λέγων· ἰδοὺ ἐξῆλθεν ὁ σπείρων τοῦ σπείρειν.
  • unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - καὶ ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς πολλὰ ἐν παραβολαῖς λέγων, ἰδοὺ, ἐξῆλθεν ὁ σπείρων τοῦ σπείρειν.
  • Nova Versão Internacional - Jesus falou muitas coisas por parábolas, dizendo: “O semeador saiu a semear.
  • Hoffnung für alle - Was er ihnen zu sagen hatte, erklärte er durch Gleichnisse: »Ein Bauer ging aufs Feld, um Getreide zu säen.
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúa dùng nhiều ẩn dụ dạy dỗ họ: “Một người ra đồng gieo lúa.
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - แล้วพระองค์ตรัสหลายสิ่งกับพวกเขาเป็นคำอุปมาเช่น “ชาวนาคนหนึ่งออกไปหว่านเมล็ดพืช
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระ​องค์​กล่าว​เป็น​อุปมา​ให้​เขา​เหล่า​นั้น​ฟัง​หลาย​ต่อ​หลาย​เรื่อง​ว่า “ชาวไร่​คนหนึ่ง​ออกไป​หว่าน​เมล็ดพืช
  • Ezekiel 24:3 - Now speak a parable to the rebellious house. Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Put the pot on the fire — put it on, and then pour water into it!
  • Ezekiel 24:4 - Place the pieces of meat in it, every good piece — thigh and shoulder. Fill it with choice bones.
  • Ezekiel 24:5 - Take the choicest of the flock and also pile up the fuel under it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.
  • Ezekiel 24:6 - “‘Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, the pot that has corrosion inside it, and its corrosion has not come out of it! Empty it piece by piece; lots should not be cast for its contents.
  • Ezekiel 24:7 - For the blood she shed is still within her. She put it out on the bare rock; she didn’t pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.
  • Ezekiel 24:8 - In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have put her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.
  • Ezekiel 24:9 - “‘Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I myself will make the pile of kindling large.
  • Ezekiel 24:10 - Pile on the logs and kindle the fire! Cook the meat well and mix in the spices! Let the bones be burned!
  • Ezekiel 24:11 - Set the empty pot on its coals so that it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt inside it; its corrosion will be consumed.
  • Ezekiel 24:12 - It has frustrated every effort; its thick corrosion will not come off. Into the fire with its corrosion!
  • Ezekiel 24:13 - Because of the depravity of your uncleanness — since I tried to purify you, but you would not be purified from your uncleanness — you will not be pure again until I have satisfied my wrath on you.
  • Ezekiel 24:14 - I, the Lord, have spoken. It is coming, and I will do it! I will not refrain, I will not show pity, and I will not relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds. This is the declaration of the Lord God.’”
  • Luke 8:10 - So he said, “The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that Looking they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
  • Matthew 24:32 - “Learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.
  • Ezekiel 17:2 - “Son of man, pose a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel.
  • Psalms 78:2 - I will declare wise sayings; I will speak mysteries from the past  —
  • Ezekiel 20:49 - Then I said, “Oh, Lord God, they are saying of me, ‘Isn’t he just composing parables?’”
  • Luke 12:41 - “Lord,” Peter asked, “are you telling this parable to us or to everyone?”
  • John 16:25 - “I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
  • Judges 9:8 - The trees decided to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, “Reign over us.”
  • Judges 9:9 - But the olive tree said to them, “Should I stop giving my oil that people use to honor both God and men, and rule over the trees?”
  • Judges 9:10 - Then the trees said to the fig tree, “Come and reign over us.”
  • Judges 9:11 - But the fig tree said to them, “Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, and rule over trees?”
  • Judges 9:12 - Later, the trees said to the grapevine, “Come and reign over us.”
  • Judges 9:13 - But the grapevine said to them, “Should I stop giving my wine that cheers both God and man, and rule over trees?”
  • Judges 9:14 - Finally, all the trees said to the bramble, “Come and reign over us.”
  • Judges 9:15 - The bramble said to the trees, “If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out from the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon.”
  • Judges 9:16 - “Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have rewarded him appropriately for what he did —
  • Judges 9:17 - for my father fought for you, risked his life, and rescued you from Midian,
  • Judges 9:18 - and now you have attacked my father’s family today, killed his seventy sons on top of a large stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, king over the citizens of Shechem ‘because he is your brother’ —
  • Judges 9:19 - so if you have acted faithfully and honestly with Jerubbaal and his house this day, rejoice in Abimelech and may he also rejoice in you.
  • Judges 9:20 - But if not, may fire come from Abimelech and consume the citizens of Shechem and Beth-millo, and may fire come from the citizens of Shechem and Beth-millo and consume Abimelech.”
  • Micah 2:4 - In that day one will take up a taunt against you and lament mournfully, saying, “We are totally ruined! He measures out the allotted land of my people. How he removes it from me! He allots our fields to traitors.”
  • Luke 15:3 - So he told them this parable:
  • Luke 15:4 - “What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?
  • Luke 15:5 - When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
  • Luke 15:6 - and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’
  • Luke 15:7 - I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don’t need repentance.
  • Mark 3:23 - So he summoned them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?
  • Isaiah 5:1 - I will sing about the one I love, a song about my loved one’s vineyard: The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
  • Isaiah 5:2 - He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the finest vines. He built a tower in the middle of it and even dug out a winepress there. He expected it to yield good grapes, but it yielded worthless grapes.
  • Isaiah 5:3 - So now, residents of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
  • Isaiah 5:4 - What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?
  • Isaiah 5:5 - Now I will tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
  • Isaiah 5:6 - I will make it a wasteland. It will not be pruned or weeded; thorns and briers will grow up. I will also give orders to the clouds that rain should not fall on it.
  • Isaiah 5:7 - For the vineyard of the Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.
  • Habakkuk 2:6 - Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles about him? They will say, “Woe to him who amasses what is not his — how much longer?  — and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.”
  • Mark 12:1 - He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
  • Psalms 49:4 - I turn my ear to a proverb; I explain my riddle with a lyre.
  • Matthew 22:1 - Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables:
  • Matthew 13:10 - Then the disciples came up and asked him, “Why are you speaking to them in parables?”
  • Matthew 13:11 - He answered, “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.
  • Matthew 13:12 - For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
  • Matthew 13:13 - That is why I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.
  • Luke 8:5 - “A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some seed fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
  • Luke 8:6 - Other seed fell on the rock; when it grew up, it withered away, since it lacked moisture.
  • Luke 8:7 - Other seed fell among thorns; the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
  • Luke 8:8 - Still other seed fell on good ground; when it grew up, it produced fruit: a hundred times what was sown.” As he said this, he called out, “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen.”
  • Mark 4:13 - Then he said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand all of the parables?
  • 2 Samuel 12:1 - So the Lord sent Nathan to David. When he arrived, he said to him: There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
  • 2 Samuel 12:2 - The rich man had very large flocks and herds,
  • 2 Samuel 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meager food she would eat, from his cup she would drink, and in his arms she would sleep. She was like a daughter to him.
  • 2 Samuel 12:4 - Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man could not bring himself to take one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.
  • 2 Samuel 12:5 - David was infuriated with the man and said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
  • 2 Samuel 12:6 - Because he has done this thing and shown no pity, he must pay four lambs for that lamb.”
  • 2 Samuel 12:7 - Nathan replied to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you from Saul.
  • Mark 4:33 - He was speaking the word to them with many parables like these, as they were able to understand.
  • Matthew 13:34 - Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and he did not tell them anything without a parable,
  • Matthew 13:35 - so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled: I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things kept secret from the foundation of the world.
  • Matthew 13:53 - When Jesus had finished these parables, he left there.
  • Mark 12:12 - They were looking for a way to arrest him but feared the crowd because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. So they left him and went away.
  • Mark 4:2 - He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them,
  • Mark 4:3 - “Listen! Consider the sower who went out to sow.
  • Mark 4:4 - As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
  • Mark 4:5 - Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn’t have much soil, and it grew up quickly, since the soil wasn’t deep.
  • Mark 4:6 - When the sun came up, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.
  • Mark 4:7 - Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it didn’t produce fruit.
  • Mark 4:8 - Still other seed fell on good ground and it grew up, producing fruit that increased thirty, sixty, and a hundred times.”
  • Mark 4:9 - Then he said, “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen.”
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