With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it;
And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow.
yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”
he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.