And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.
And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, the man who sows went forth to sow.
Yet when it is sown, it goes up and becomes greater than all the plants, and it makes great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under the shade of it.
And he did not speak to them apart from a parable, but privately he explained all things to his disciples.