Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter [and] former rain to the earth.

And the disciples came and said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in parables?"

" Therefore hear the parable of the sower:

Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field."

Then Peter answered and said to Him, "Explain this parable to us."

But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.

But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples.

When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable.

So He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,

"No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.