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John 16:25
“ These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
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Matthew 15:15-20
Then Peter answered and said to Him,“ Explain this parable to us.”So Jesus said,“ Are you also still without understanding?Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
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Matthew 13:36-43
Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying,“ Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”He answered and said to them:“ He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one.The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age.The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
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Luke 24:27
And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
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Mark 4:10
But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.
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Luke 24:44-46
Then He said to them,“ These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.Then He said to them,“ Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
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Mark 7:17-23
When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable.So He said to them,“ Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?”And He said,“ What comes out of a man, that defiles a man.For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”
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Luke 8:9-10
Then His disciples asked Him, saying,“ What does this parable mean?”And He said,“ To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that‘ Seeing they may not see, And hearing they may not understand.’