Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 13:10

"And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?" — Matthew 13:10 (ASV)

Perhaps the crowd had complained to the disciples that they could not see what their Master was driving at. The apostles may have felt unable to reply. As the matter perplexed them, they did well to inquire of their infallible Teacher, rather than to invent an explanatory theory, which might have been altogether a mistake.