And with many such parables spoke he the word unto them, as they were able to hear [it].
I have yet many things to say unto you, but you2f cannot bear them now.
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.”
But when it is sown, it grows up, and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
But without a parable spoke he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.