Bible Verses About Parables

and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

`When the strong man armed may keep his hall, in peace are his goods;

`And no one having lighted a lamp, doth put it in a secret place, nor under the measure, but on the lamp-stand, that those coming in may behold the light.

`The lamp of the body is the eye, when then thine eye may be simple, thy whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, thy body also is darkened;

take heed, then, lest the light that is in thee be darkness;

if then thy whole body is lightened, not having any part darkened, the whole shall be lightened, as when the lamp by the brightness may give thee light.'

And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;

and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits?

and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

`And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare--to whom shall they be?

so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so;

and when--a south wind blowing, ye say, that there will be heat, and it is;

hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time--how do ye not make proof of it ?

`And why, also, of yourselves, judge ye not what is righteous?

And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;

and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?

`And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;

and if indeed it may bear fruit--;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'

It is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did cast into his garden, and it increased, and came to a great tree, and the fowls of the heavens did rest in its branches.'

And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,

`When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.

`But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;