Matthew 13:3

Jesus begins teaching in parables, starting with a farmer who went out to sow seed.

Cross-references · 26

• Mark 4:2–9He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
• Mark 4:13He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
• Ps 78:2I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
• Luke 8:5–8“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
• Matt 13:10–13The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
• Ezek 24:3–14Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the cauldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
• 2 Sam 12:1–7Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
• Matt 13:53When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.
• Mark 4:33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
• Matt 13:34–35Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,
• Ps 49:4I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
• Mark 12:12They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
• Judg 9:8–20The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
• Matt 24:32“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
• Luke 8:10He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
• Luke 12:41Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
• Ezek 17:2“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
• Mark 12:1He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
• Ezek 20:49Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’”
• Hab 2:6Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
• Isa 5:1–7Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
• Mark 3:23He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
• John 16:25I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
• Mic 2:4In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’”
• Luke 15:3–7He told them this parable.
• Matt 22:1Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,

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