You do not know the meaning of this parable!" he went on; "Then how will you understand all the other parables?
Then he told them many truths in parables. "The sower," he began, "went out to sow; and,
The sower sows the Message.
Then Jesus said to them: "O foolish men, slow to accept all that the Prophets have said!
'All whom I love I rebuke and discipline.' Therefore be in earnest and repent.