Matthew 13:10
And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
Mark 4:10
As soon as He was alone,
Mark 4:33-34
With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;
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And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?