And Jesus rose up from thence, and came into the coasts of Judea over Jordan; and again the people came together to him, and as he was wont, again he taught them.
And Jesus began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and delved a pit, and builded a tower, and hired it to earth-tillers, and went forth in pilgrimage.
And he said to them, To you it is given to know the private [or the mystery] of the kingdom of God. But to them that be withoutforth, all things be made in parables,