Jesus then told them: If you don't understand this story, you won't understand any others.
I correct and punish everyone I love. So make up your minds to turn away from your sins.
Then Jesus asked the two disciples, “Why can't you understand? How can you be so slow to believe all that the prophets said?
Then he taught them many things by using stories. He said: A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field.
What the farmer is spreading is really the message about the kingdom.