<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the disciples came to him and said, &#8220;Why do you speak to them in parables?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus spoke<n id="1" /> to them again in parables, saying:

He<n id="1" /> told them many things in parables,<n id="2" /> saying: &#8220;Listen!<n id="3" /> A sower went out to sow.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet:<n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>I will open my mouth in parables,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the worldb>.i>&#8221;<n id="2" />p>