Using Parables Fulfills Prophecy
34 Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and he did not tell them anything without a parable, 13:34 Mk 4:34; Jn 10:6; 16:2535 so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:
I will open my mouth in parables;
I will declare things kept secret
from the foundation of the world. 13:35 Some mss omit of the world, 13:35 Ps 78:2, 13:35 Ps 78:2; Rm 16:25–26; 1Co 2:7; Eph 3:9; Col 1:26