Mark 4:13

And he said to them, "You do not understand this parable? Then how are you to understand the other parables?

I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.

Now, listen to the parable of the sower.

Have you understood all this?" They said to him, "Yes."

Peter answered, "Explain this parable to us at anyrate."

When Jesus noted this he said, "How little trust you have in me! Why all this talk, because you have brought no bread?

Now when he went indoors away from the crowd, his disciples asked him the meaning of this parabolic saying.

This is what the parable means. The seed is the word of God.

He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared!

But I could not discuss things with you, my brothers, as spiritual persons; I had to address you as worldlings, as mere babes in Christ.

On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?