^34-35 All these things Jesus spoke to the crowd in parables, and he did not speak to them at all without using parables—to fulfil the prophecy: ‘I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world’.

Jesus again explains a parable to his disciples

³⁶ Later, he left the crowds and went indoors, where his disciples came and said, “Please explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”