⁴⁹ Then I said, ^(A)“Ah, Lord God! They are saying of me, ^(B)‘Is he not a maker of parables?’”

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²⁵ “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. ^(A)The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.

¹⁸ Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, ^(A)“What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because ^(B)he was preaching ^(C)Jesus and the resurrection.

¹³ This is why I speak to them in parables, because ^(A)seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, ^(B)nor do they understand. ¹⁴ Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:

^2 (A)“Son of man, ^(B)propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;