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:

⁶ For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

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.'

¹¹ And he answering said to them that -- `To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given,

¹² for whoever hath, it shall be given to him, and he shall have overabundance, and whoever hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him.

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,

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