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The Parable of the Tenants
“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.
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When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them.
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The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
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The Parable of the Ten Virgins
“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
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The Parable of the Bags of Gold
“Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them.
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So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?
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The Parable of the Sower
Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge.
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He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said:
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When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables.
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He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables
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Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?
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The Parable of the Growing Seed
He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.
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The Parable of the Mustard Seed
Again he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it?
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With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand.
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He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.
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After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.
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The Parable of the Tenants
Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.
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Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.
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He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
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He also told them this parable: “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit?
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The Parable of the Sower
After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him,
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While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable:
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His disciples asked him what this parable meant.
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He said, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, “‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’
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“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
