All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.
These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh, when I will no more speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.
Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.
This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke to them.
His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly, and speakest no proverb.