²⁹ His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.

² I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

⁴⁹ Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

³³ And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.