Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?
Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed.
The farmer sows the word.
He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.