⁹ Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"

¹⁰ The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

¹⁸ "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

¹⁰ When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

³ Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, Like the spring rain that waters the earth."

³⁶ Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field."

¹⁵ Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."

³⁴ Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained all things.

¹⁷ When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

¹⁸ He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,

¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.