As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools.

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: / That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.

And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.