All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude in parables; and without a parable spoke he not to them:
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
This parable spoke Jesus to them: but they understood not what things they were which he spoke to them.
These things have I spoken to you in proverbs: but the time comes, when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.
His disciples said to him, See, now speak you plainly, and speak no proverb.