Mark 7:17

Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."

Then Jesus sent the crowds away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the tares in the field."

And when he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?"

Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

And when he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

Without a parable he did not speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

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