Luke 8:9

The Reason For The Parables

⁸ Other seed fell into the good soil, and grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times as great.” As He said these things, He would call out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” ⁹ His disciples began questioning Him as to what this parable meant. ¹⁰ And He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

Disciples Asked

Jesus

Luke

Matthew 13:10

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

Matthew 13:18

“Hear then the parable of the sower.

Mark 4:10

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

Hosea 6:3

“So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

Matthew 13:36

Then He left the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”

Matthew 15:15

Peter said to Him, “Explain the parable to us.”

Mark 4:34

and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

Mark 7:17-18

When he had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.

John 15:15

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