Then the disciples came and asked him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables.
And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow.
If you have ears, hear!”
He answered, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.