I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my riddle on the harp.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds, and without a parable He did not speak to them,

so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: "I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world."

and will understand a parable, and an enigma; the saying of the wise also, and riddles.

He answered and said to them, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

And apart from a parable He did not speak to them, however, privately to His disciples, he would explain all things.