This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: / That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? / And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.