Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
After Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples inquired about the parable.
Have you understood all these things?” “Yes,” they answered.
Peter said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”
Consider, then, the parable of the sower:
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
Aware of their conversation, Jesus said, “You of little faith, why are you debating among yourselves about having no bre