John Gill Commentary Matthew 13:34

"All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:" — Matthew 13:34 (ASV)

All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude In the hearing of his disciples, while in the ship, the multitude being on the shore,

in parables ; in the four foregoing ones;

and without a parable spoke he not to them : not that he never had preached but in a parabolical way to them, or that he never did afterwards use any other way of speaking; for it is certain, that both before and after, he delivered himself plainly, and without figures:

but the meaning is, that in that sermon, and at that time, he thought fit to make use of no other method, as appears from the many other parables he afterwards delivered; and though he explained the meaning of some of them to his disciples, at their request, yet he dismissed the multitude without any explication of them.