He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
The farmer sows the word.
He said to them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.