⁹ And his disciples were questioning him, saying, `What may this simile be?'

¹⁰ And the disciples having come near, said to him, `Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?'

¹⁸ `Ye, therefore, hear ye the simile of the sower:

¹⁰ And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,

³ And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'

³⁶ Then having let away the multitudes, Jesus came to the house, and his disciples came near to him, saying, `Explain to us the simile of the darnel of the field.'

¹⁵ And Peter answering said to him, `Explain to us this simile.'

³⁴ and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

¹⁷ And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples were questioning him about the simile,

¹⁸ and he saith to them, `So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him?

¹⁵ no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.