When he left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him what he’d meant by that.
Peter asked, “But what did you mean by what you said?”
Then Jesus left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and asked, “Please explain the story of the weeds in the field to us.”
After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive out the evil spirit?”
He didn’t teach them anything without using a story. But when he was alone with his disciples, he explained everything to them.
Later, when Jesus was alone, the 12 disciples and others around him asked about the stories.
The disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do you tell stories when you speak to the people?”
Some time later, Jesus went back into Capernaum. When the people learned that he’d come home,
Jesus went into another house, and such a large crowd gathered there that he and his disciples weren’t even able to eat.
“Don’t you understand?” Jesus asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make them unclean?