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

²⁵ `These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

¹³ `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,