Bible Verses About Parables: Leaven

And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.