Mark 4:13

Then He said to them: “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any of the parables?

As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be committed and repent.

“You, then, listen to the parable of the sower:

“Have you understood all these things?”

“Yes,” they told Him.

Then Peter replied to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”

Aware of this, Jesus said, “You of little faith! Why are you discussing among yourselves that you do not have bread?

When He went into the house away from the crowd, the disciples asked Him about the parable.

“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

He said to them, “How unwise and slow you are to believe in your hearts all that the prophets have spoken!

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

Evil men do not understand justice,
but those who seek the Lord understand everything.

And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him?