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

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.

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