Bible Verses About Parables

The nations sounded an alarm against him; and he was caught in their pit. With hooks they dragged him off to the land of Egypt.

When she saw that she had been thwarted, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made a young lion of him.

He prowled among the lions, grew to be a young lion, learned to seize his prey and became a man-eater.

He raped their widows and destroyed their cities; the land and all in it were appalled at the sound of his roaring.

The nations set a snare for him from the provinces all around, they spread their net over him, and he was caught in their pit.

With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Bavel to imprison him in a fortress, so that his roar would be heard no more on the mountains of Isra'el.

"'Your mother was like a strong grapevine planted by the water. It was fruitful and luxuriant because of the abundant water.

It had strong branches to be used as scepters by rulers; besides having thick foliage, it grew taller and taller, until its height was noticed, with its mass of branches.

But it was torn up in fury and flung on the ground. An east wind withered her fruit, her strong branches were broken off; they dried up; and fire consumed the vine.

It has been transplanted to the desert, to a dry, thirsty land.

Fire has gone out from its own branches, burning up its fruit, so that now it has no strong branch to be a ruler's scepter.'" This lamentation became very well known.

And tell this allegory to these rebels; say that Adonai ELOHIM says: 'Put a pot on the fire; put it there, pour water in it;

Put in it pieces of meat, all the best parts - the thigh, the shoulder; fill it with the choicest cuts,

taken from the pick of the flock, and pile the bones underneath. Bring it to a rolling boil, till it's all cooked, even the bones.'

ADONAI said, "You're concerned over the castor-bean plant, which cost you no effort; you didn't make it grow; it came up in a night and perished in a night.

So shouldn't I be concerned about the great city of Ninveh, in which there are more than 120,000 people who don't know their right hand from their left - not to mention all the animals?"

"So, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on bedrock.

The rain fell, the rivers flooded, the winds blew and beat against that house, but it didn't collapse, because its foundation was on rock.

But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

The rain fell, the rivers flooded, the wind blew and beat against that house, and it collapsed -- and its collapse was horrendous!"

Yeshua said to them, "Can wedding guests mourn while the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them; then they will fast.

No one patches an old coat with a piece of unshrunk cloth, because the patch tears away from the coat and leaves a worse hole.

Nor do people put new wine in old wineskins; if they do, the skins burst, the wine spills and the wineskins are ruined. No, they pour new wine into freshly prepared wineskins, and in this way both are preserved."

"When an unclean spirit comes out of a person, it travels through dry country seeking rest and does not find it.

He told them many things in parables: "A farmer went out to sow his seed.