And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, `How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?

and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:

And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,

and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;

And he saith to them, `Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

And he said, `To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it?

And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,

and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples were questioning him about the simile,

And he began to speak to them in similes: `A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-winevat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad;

And they were seeking to lay hold on him, and they feared the multitude, for they knew that against them he spake the simile, and having left him, they went away;

`And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: when the branch may already become tender, and may put forth the leaves, ye know that nigh is the summer;