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