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