With many similar parables he spoke the word to them, to the extent that they were able to understand it.
Then he told them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a sower went out to sow.
Yet when it is sown, it grows and becomes larger than all the garden plants and produces large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade.”
He did not speak to them without using a parable, but privately he explained everything to his disciples.
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.