“Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,”
Matthew 13:34 (WEB)
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32which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.” 33He spoke another parable to them.“The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measuresof meal, until it was all leavened.” 34Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them, 35that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,“I will open my mouth in parables;I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.” 36Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”