Then the disciples came and asked Jesus, "Why do you speak to people in parables?"

"Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

When the scribes and the Pharisees saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

When Jesus' parents saw him, they were shocked. His mother asked him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been worried sick looking for you!"

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

Now no one at the table knew why Jesus said this to him.