So with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.
He told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow.
when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”
He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.
“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.