When Jesus had left the crowd and gone indoors, his disciples came to him and said, "Tell us what the parable about the weeds in the field means."

He would not speak to them without using parables, but when he was alone with his disciples, he would explain everything to them.

When he left the crowd and went into the house, his disciples asked him to explain this saying.

Then his disciples said to him, "Now you are speaking plainly, without using figures of speech.