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

¹² I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:

³⁵ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

¹ And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

² I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able `to bear it': nay, not even now are ye able;

¹¹ Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

¹² For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

¹³ For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.

¹⁴ But solid food is for fullgrown men, `even' those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.