¶ All these things spake Iesus unto the people by similitudes, and with out similitudes spake he nothing to them,
Therefore speak I to them in similitudes. For though they see, they see not: and hearing they hear not: nether understand.
And he spake many things to them in similitudes, saying: Behold, the sower went forth to sow.
This manner of saying spake Iesus unto them. And they understood not, what things they were, which he spake unto them.
¶ These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs. The time will come when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs: but I shall shew you plainly from my father.
¶ His disciples said unto him: lo now speakest thou plainly, and thou usest no proverb.