Old Day the gardener seemed Death himself, or Time, scythe in hand by the sundial and freshly-dug grave in my book of parables.
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Mark 12:1:
Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: 'A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.'
(NIV)
AND [Jesus] started to speak to them in parables [with comparisons and illustrations]. A man planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower and let it out [for rent] to vinedressers and went into another country.
(AMP)
And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
(KJV)
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Proverbs 1:6:
For understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
(NIV)
That people may understand a proverb and a figure of speech or an enigma with its interpretation, and the words of the wise and their dark sayings or riddles.
(AMP)
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
(KJV)
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
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Matthew 22:1:
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
(NIV)
AND AGAIN Jesus spoke to them in parables (comparisons, stories used to illustrate and explain), saying
(AMP)
And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
(KJV)
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