Yeshua spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, *Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
Yeshua spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.
I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
His talmidim said to him, *Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.