This parable (ταυτην την παροιμιαν). Old word for proverb from παρα (beside) and οιμος, way, a wayside saying or saying by the way…

This parable. See Barnes on Matthew 13:3.

They understood not, and so forth. They did not understand the meaning or design …

This parable spake Jesus unto them.—Better, this allegory spoke Jesus to them. The word rendered "parable" is th…

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. Then said Jesus unto them again, Ve…

St. Augustine of Hippo: Our Lord feeds us with plain words and challenges us with what is obscure. For when two people—one godly…

A pen frequently held several flocks; and when the time came to go out in the morning pasture, each shepherd separated his sheep from the others by…

This parable. This is the reason why, proudly boasting of their wisdom, they rejected the light of Christ; for in a matter not very diffic…

This parable spoke Jesus to them
To the Pharisees, who were with him, (John 9:40);

Many who hear the word of Christ do not understand it, because they will not. But we will find one scripture expounding another, and the blessed Sp…

Here the Evangelist explains why it was nece ary to clarify the preceding parable, a nece ity caused by the listeners’ failure to understand. He do…