All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,
`Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,
and he spake to them many things in similes, saying: `Lo, the sower went forth to sow,
This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;
`These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.
His disciples say to him, `Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;