PARABLES IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS

PARABLE Matthew Mark Luke Source
Recorded in One Gospel        
The tares 13:24-30     M
The treasure 13:44     M
The pearl 13:45-46     M
The net 13:47-48     M
The unmerciful servant 18:23-34     M
The vineyard labourers 20:1-16     M
The two sons 21:28-30     M
Mariage of the king's son 22:2-14     M
The ten virgins 25:1-13     M
The talents 25:14-30   19:12-27 Q?
The sheep and the goats 25:31-46     M
Seed growing secretly   4:26-29   Mk
The householder   13:34   Mk
The two-debtors     7:41-42 L
The good Samaritan     10:30-35 L
The importunate friend     11:5-8 L
The rich fool     12:16-20 L
The watching servants     12:35-40 L
The wise servant     12:42-48 L
The barren fig tree     13:6-9 L
The banquet     14:16-24 L
Tower and king going to war     14:28-33 L
The lost coin     15:8-10 L
The lost son     15:11-32 L
The unjust steward     16:1-8 L
The rich man and Lazarus     16:19-31 L
The unprofitable servants     17:7-10 L
The unjust judge     18:2-5 L
Pharisee and the tax collector     18:10-14 L
The pounds 25:14-30   19:12-37 Q?
Recorded in two Gospels        
House on the rock and the sand 7:24-27   6:47-49 Q
The leaven 13:33   13:20-21 Q
The lost sheep 18:12-13   15:4-6 L? Q
Recorded in Three Gospels        
Candle under a bushel 5:15 4:21 8:16 Mk
New cloth on an old garment 9:16 2:21 5:36 Mk
New wine in old bottles 9:17 2:22 5:37-38 Mk
The sower 13:3-8 4:3-8 8:5-8 Mk
The mustard seed 13:31-32 4:30-32 13:18-19 Mk
The wicked tenants 21:33-39 12:1-9 20:9-32 Mk
The fig tree and all trees 24:32-33 13:28-29 21:29 Mk

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