With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand.
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.