His disciples said to him, “Look, now you’re speaking plainly and not using figures of speech.
“I have told y’all these things using figures of speech. But the time is coming when I won’t use figures of speech, but will tell y’all plainly about the Father.
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables, and he did not speak to them without a parable.
He spoke to them openly. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
Jesus shared this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was saying to them.