Verse 2

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:4 : 4 I will incline mine eare to a parable, and vtter my graue matter vpon the harpe.
  • Prov 1:6 : 6 To vnderstand a parable, & the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.
  • Matt 13:34-35 : 34 All these thinges spake Iesus vnto the multitude in parables, and without parables spake he not to them, 35 That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, and will vtter the thinges which haue beene kept secrete from the foundation of the worlde.
  • Mark 4:34 : 34 And without parables spake hee nothing vnto them: but he expounded all thinges to his disciples apart.
  • Matt 13:11-13 : 11 And he answered, & said vnto them, Because it is giuen vnto you, to know the secretes of the kingdome of heauen, but to the it is not giue. 12 For whosoeuer hath, to him shalbe giuen, and he shall haue abundance: but whosoeuer hath not, from him shalbe taken away, euen that he hath. 13 Therefore speake I to them in parables, because they seeing, doe not see: and hearing, they heare not, neither vnderstand.