The Use of Parables

³⁴ Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing.^(A)

The Use of Parables

³³ With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it;^{(A) 34} he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.^(B)

Peace for the Disciples

²⁵ “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but will tell you plainly of the Father.

¹³ The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’^(A)