"You must listen closely then to the figure of the sower.

Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field.

Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen."

Then he left the crowds and went into his house. And his disciples came up to him and said, "Explain to us the figure of the weeds in the field."

Peter said to him, "Explain the figure for us."

"Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood.

And Jesus said, "If you do not understand this figure, then how will you understand my other figures?

"How can we find any comparison," he said, "for the reign of God, or what figure can we use to describe it?

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples asked him what he meant by this figure.

He used this figure also in speaking to them: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and sews it on an old one, or if he does, he will both tear the new one and the piece from the new one will not match the old one.

And he used a figure saying, "Can one blind man lead another? Will they not both fall into a hole?

His disciples asked him what this figure meant.

This is what the figure means. The seed is God's message.

Peter said to him, "Master, do you mean this figure for us, or is it for everybody?"

He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.

So in speaking to them he used this figure:

This was the figure Jesus used in speaking to them, but they did not understand what he meant by it.