Mark 4:2

²³He summoned them and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

³⁴Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them, ³⁵that 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.”

¹¹He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

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

¹⁰The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

³He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

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

³⁸In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,

¹⁶Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. ¹⁷If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.

²⁸When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,