Ezekiel 20:49

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then I said, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Does he not speak in parables?

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  • John 16:25 : 25 I have spoken these things to you in proverbs: but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but I will show you plainly about the Father.
  • Acts 17:18 : 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What does this babbler want to say? Others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.
  • Ezek 17:2 : 2 Son of man, present a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
  • Matt 13:13-14 : 13 This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: By hearing, you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive.

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    19And the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things mean to us, that you are doing so?

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