Jesus Parables

He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measuresof meal, until it was all leavened.”

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” — read the full passage →

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, — read the full passage →

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, — read the full passage →

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. — read the full passage →

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field; — read the full passage →

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. — read the full passage →

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. — read the full passage →

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?” — read the full passage →

Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. — read the full passage →

He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. — read the full passage →

He said, “A certain man had two sons.

With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. — read the full passage →

He said, “How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? — read the full passage →

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season? — read the full passage →

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind, — read the full passage →

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,

He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, — read the full passage →

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’ — read the full passage →

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →

When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? — read the full passage →

Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

Or what woman, if she had ten drachmacoins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? — read the full passage →

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. — read the full passage →

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. — read the full passage →

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

He said, “The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, — read the full passage →

“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down at the table,’ — read the full passage →

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches.”

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow. — read the full passage →

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn’t open his mouth.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, — read the full passage →

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”

No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.

They set up over his head the accusation against him written, “THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’ — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. — read the full passage →

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? — read the full passage →

He said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it? — read the full passage →

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, — read the full passage →