THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK - Chapter 4 - Verse 13

Verse 13. Know ye not this parable? This which is so plain and obvious.

How then will ye know all parables? Those which are more difficult and obscure. As they were themselves to be teachers, it was important that they should be acquainted with the whole system of religion —of much more importance for them at that time, than for the mass of the people.