New Revised Standard Version
And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow.

Contemporary English Version
Then he taught them many things by using stories. He said: A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field.

New American Bible
And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

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Matthew 13:10-13,34,35,53 And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables? . . .

Matthew 22:1 And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying:

Matthew 24:32 And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof is now tender and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.

Judges 9:8-20 The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us. . . .

2 Samuel 12:1-7 And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him, he said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other poor. . . .

Psalm 49:4 I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

Isaiah 5:1-7 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. . . .

Ezekiel 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

Ezekiel 20:49 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?

Ezekiel 24:3 And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water in it.

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Micah 2:4 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.

Habakkuk 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?

Mark 3:23 And after he had called them together, he said to them in parables: How can Satan cast out Satan?

Mark 4:2,13,33 And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his doctrine: . . .

Mark 12:1,12 And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far country. . . .

Luke 8:10 To whom he said: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to the rest in parables, that seeing they may not see and hearing may not understand.

Luke 12:41 And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?

Luke 15:3 And he spoke to them this parable, saying:

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John 16:25 These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

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parables.

a sower.

Mark 4:2-9 And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his doctrine: . . .

Luke 8:5-8 The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the way side. And it was trodden down: and the fowls of the air devoured it. . . .