All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:
These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you plainly of the Father.
Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, {\cf6 Behold, the sower went forth to sow;
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.\par
His disciples say, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no dark saying.