Mark 4:13
"Do you all miss the meaning of this parable?" He added; "how then will you understand the rest of my parables?"
Revelation 3:19
All whom I hold dear, I reprove and chastise; therefore be in earnest and repent.
Matthew 13:18-23
"To you then I will explain the parable of the Sower.
Matthew 13:51-52
"Have you understood all this?" He asked. "Yes," they said.
Matthew 15:15-17
"Explain to us this figurative language," said Peter.
Matthew 16:8-9
Jesus perceived this and said, "Why are you reasoning among yourselves, you men of little faith, because you have no bread?
Mark 7:17-18
After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech.
Luke 8:11-15
The meaning of the parable is as follows. The seed is God's Message.
Luke 24:25
"O dull-witted men," He replied, "with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
And as for myself, brethren, I found it impossible to speak to you as spiritual men. It had to be as to worldlings--mere babes in Christ.
Hebrews 5:11-14
Concerning Him we have much to say, and much that it would be difficult to make clear to you, since you have become so dull of apprehension.