Verse 2

I wyll open my mouth in a parable: I wyll declare harde sentences of the olde tyme past.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:4 : 4 I wyll encline myne eare to a parable: I wyll open my darke sentence vpon a harpe.
  • Prov 1:6 : 6 To vnderstande a parable, and the interpretation therof, the wordes of the wise, and their darke speaches.
  • Matt 13:34-35 : 34 All these thynges spake Iesus vnto the people in parables: and without a parable spake he not vnto them. 35 That it myght be fulfylled, which was spoken by the prophete, that sayth: I wyll open my mouth in parables, I wyll speake foorth thynges which haue ben kept secrete from the foundation of the worlde.
  • Mark 4:34 : 34 But without parable spake he nothing vnto them. But when they were alone, he expounded all thynges to his disciples.
  • Matt 13:11-13 : 11 He aunswered and sayde vnto them: because it is geuen vnto you, to knowe the secretes of the kyngdome of heauen, but to them, it is not geuen. 12 For whosoeuer hath, to hym shalbe geuen, and he shall haue more aboundaunce: But whosoeuer hath not, from hym shalbe taken away, euen that he hath. 13 Therfore speake I to them in parables: because they seeyng, see not: and hearyng, they heare not: neither do they vnderstande.