“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with d
He gave new garments to each of them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.
“Son of man, pose a riddle; speak a parable to the house of Israel
“Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman departed, taking w
“Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘Look, two young men from the sons of the prop
by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fu
His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him.
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
When Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, He told them a parable:
This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand
So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—k
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:
One young man who had been following Jesus was wearing a linen cloth around his body. They caught hold of him,