³³ With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

¹² "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.

³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to 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 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

² I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

¹¹ About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

¹² For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

¹³ For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

¹⁴ But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.