⁹ And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

¹⁰ And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

¹⁸ Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

¹⁰ And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

³ Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

³⁶ Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

¹⁵ Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.

³⁴ But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

¹⁷ And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

¹⁸ And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

¹⁵ Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.