He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to the rest I speak in parables (parabolais | παραβολαῖς | dat pl fem), so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
As a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, he spoke using a parable (parabolēs | παραβολῆς | gen sg fem).
He also told a parable (parabolēn | παραβολήν | acc sg fem) to them: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, he both tears the new, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
And he said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb (parabolēn | παραβολήν | acc sg fem) to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself.’ What we have heard happened in Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.”
“Now from the fig tree learn its parable: (parabolēn | παραβολήν | acc sg fem) As soon as its bough becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.
And they were seeking to arrest him, but feared the people, for they knew that he had spoken the parable (parabolēn | παραβολήν | acc sg fem) against them. So they left him and went away.
And he began to speak to them in parables (parabolais | παραβολαῖς | dat pl fem). “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it. He dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower; then he leased it out to tenant farmers and went on a journey.
