² and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:

¹¹ and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;

²³ And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, `How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

³⁵ that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

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

³ and he spake to them many things in similes, saying: `Lo, the sower went forth to sow,

¹⁹ The chief priests, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching;

¹⁶ Jesus answered them and said, `My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;

¹⁷ if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.

³⁸ and he was saying to them in his teaching, `Beware of the scribes, who will in long robes to walk, and love salutations in the market-places,

³³ And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,

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

²⁸ And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

² I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,

⁴ I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle: