Bible Verses About Parables: The boiling pot

And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water in it.

Heap together into it the pieces thereof, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full of bones.

Take the fattest of the flock, and lay together piles of bones under it: the seething thereof is boiling hot, and the bones thereof are thoroughly sodden in the midst of it.