And he said unto them, Know you2f not this parable? and how then will you2f know all parables?
As many as I love, I rebuke (reprimand; strongly warn; restrain) and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
He spoke to them many things in parables and said to them: “A man went forth from his house in the morning to sow his seed.”
The sower sows the word.