I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

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

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

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

But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.