Bible Cross References
And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
Matthew 9:15-17
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Jesus answered, "Do you expect the guests at a wedding party to be sad as long as the bridegroom is with them? Of course not! But the day will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
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"No one patches up an old coat with a piece of new cloth, for the new patch will shrink and make an even bigger hole in the coat.
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Nor does anyone pour new wine into used wineskins, for the skins will burst, the wine will pour out, and the skins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins, and both will keep in good condition."
Matthew 12:43-45
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"When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one,
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it says to itself, 'I will go back to my house.' So it goes back and finds the house empty, clean, and all fixed up.
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Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day."
Matthew 13:3-11
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He used parables to tell them many things. "Once there was a man who went out to sow grain.
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As he scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
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Some of it fell on rocky ground, where there was little soil. The seeds soon sprouted, because the soil wasn't deep.
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But when the sun came up, it burned the young plants; and because the roots had not grown deep enough, the plants soon dried up.
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Some of the seed fell among thorn bushes, which grew up and choked the plants.
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But some seeds fell in good soil, and the plants bore grain: some had one hundred grains, others sixty, and others thirty."
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And Jesus concluded, "Listen, then, if you have ears!"
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Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked him, "Why do you use parables when you talk to the people?"
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Jesus answered, "The knowledge about the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
Matthew 20:1-16
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"The Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a man who went out early in the morning to hire some men to work in his vineyard.
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He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard.
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He went out again to the marketplace at nine o'clock and saw some men standing there doing nothing,
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so he told them, 'You also go and work in the vineyard, and I will pay you a fair wage.'
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So they went. Then at twelve o'clock and again at three o'clock he did the same thing.
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It was nearly five o'clock when he went to the marketplace and saw some other men still standing there. 'Why are you wasting the whole day here doing nothing?' he asked them.
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'No one hired us,' they answered. 'Well, then, you go and work in the vineyard,' he told them.
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"When evening came, the owner told his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with those who were hired last and ending with those who were hired first.'
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The men who had begun to work at five o'clock were paid a silver coin each.
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So when the men who were the first to be hired came to be paid, they thought they would get more; but they too were given a silver coin each.
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They took their money and started grumbling against the employer.
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'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'while we put up with a whole day's work in the hot sun---yet you paid them the same as you paid us!'
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'Listen, friend,' the owner answered one of them, 'I have not cheated you. After all, you agreed to do a day's work for one silver coin.
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Now take your pay and go home. I want to give this man who was hired last as much as I gave you.
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Don't I have the right to do as I wish with my own money? Or are you jealous because I am generous?' "
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And Jesus concluded, "So those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last."
Matthew 21:28-46
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"Now, what do you think? There was once a man who had two sons. He went to the older one and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'
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'I don't want to,' he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
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Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. 'Yes, sir,' he answered, but he did not go.
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Which one of the two did what his father wanted?" "The older one," they answered. So Jesus said to them, "I tell you: the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.
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For John the Baptist came to you showing you the right path to take, and you would not believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. Even when you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him.
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"Listen to another parable," Jesus said. "There was once a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a hole for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to tenants and left home on a trip.
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When the time came to gather the grapes, he sent his slaves to the tenants to receive his share of the harvest.
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The tenants grabbed his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
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Again the man sent other slaves, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way.
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Last of all he sent his son to them. 'Surely they will respect my son,' he said.
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But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the owner's son. Come on, let's kill him, and we will get his property!'
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So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
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"Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" Jesus asked.
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"He will certainly kill those evil men," they answered, "and rent the vineyard out to other tenants, who will give him his share of the harvest at the right time."
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Jesus said to them, "Haven't you ever read what the Scriptures say? 'The stone which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all. This was done by the Lord; what a wonderful sight it is!'
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"And so I tell you," added Jesus, "the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce the proper fruits."
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The chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus' parables and knew that he was talking about them,
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so they tried to arrest him. But they were afraid of the crowds, who considered Jesus to be a prophet.
Mark 4:33
Jesus preached his message to the people, using many other parables like these; he told them as much as they could understand.
Mark 4:34
He would not speak to them without using parables, but when he was alone with his disciples, he would explain everything to them.
Luke 8:10
and he answered, "The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of God has been given to you, but to the rest it comes by means of parables, so that they may look but not see, and listen but not understand.
Luke 14:16
Jesus said to him, "There was once a man who was giving a great feast to which he invited many people.