Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, b
With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand.
This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand