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Luke 14:16
But He said to him,“ A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many;
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Matthew 12:43-45
“ Now when the unclean spirit comes out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it.Then it says,‘ I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.Then it goes and brings along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they come in and live there; and the last condition of that person becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”
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Matthew 20:1-16
“ For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace;and to those he said,‘ You go into the vineyard also, and whatever is right, I will give you.’ And so they went.Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same thing.And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he* said to them,‘ Why have you been standing here idle all day long?’They* said to him,‘ Because no one hired us.’ He* said to them,‘ You go into the vineyard too.’“ Now when evening came, the owner of the vineyard* said to his foreman,‘ Call the laborers and pay them their wages, starting with the last group to the first.’When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.And so when those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.When they received it, they grumbled at the landowner,saying,‘ These who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day’s work and the scorching heat.’But he answered and said to one of them,‘ Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?Take what is yours and go; but I want to give to this last person the same as to you.Is it not lawful for me to do what I want with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’So the last shall be first, and the first, last.”
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Luke 8:10
And He said,“ To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest they are told in parables, so that while seeing they may not see, and while hearing they may not understand.
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Matthew 21:28-46
“ But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said,‘ Son, go work today in the vineyard.’But he replied,‘ I do not want to.’ Yet afterward he regretted it and went.And the man came to his second son and said the same thing; and he replied,‘ I will, sir’; and yet he did not go.Which of the two did the will of his father?” They* said,“ The first.” Jesus* said to them,“ Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even have second thoughts afterward so as to believe him.“ Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and he leased it to vine growers and went on a journey.And when the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine growers to receive his fruit.And the vine growers took his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they did the same things to them.But afterward he sent his son to them, saying,‘ They will respect my son.’But when the vine growers saw the son, they said among themselves,‘ This is the heir; come, let’s kill him and take possession of his inheritance!’And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine growers?”They* said to Him,“ He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease the vineyard to other vine growers, who will pay him the fruit in the proper seasons.”Jesus* said to them,“ Did you never read in the Scriptures,‘ A stone which the builders rejected, This has become the chief cornerstone; This came about from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes’?Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruit.And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and on whomever it falls, it will crush him.”When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.And although they sought to arrest Him, they feared the crowds, since they considered Him to be a prophet.
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Matthew 9:15-17
And Jesus said to them,“ The attendants of the groom cannot mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
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Matthew 13:3-11
And He told them many things in parables, saying,“ Behold, the sower went out to sow;and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up.Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and they sprang up immediately, because they had no depth of soil.But after the sun rose, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out.But others fell on the good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times as much.The one who has ears, let him hear.”And the disciples came up and said to Him,“ Why do You speak to them in parables?”And Jesus answered them,“ To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.
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Mark 4:33-34
And with many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to understand it;and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.
