² I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

⁴ I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.

⁶ To understand a proverb, and parables, The words and riddles of the wise.

³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

³⁵ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."

¹¹ He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

¹² For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

³⁴ Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained all things.