³³ And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it:

¹² I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.

³⁴ All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

³⁵ That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.

¹ And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

² I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

¹¹ Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.

¹² And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

¹³ For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

¹⁴ But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.