Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
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