And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why do you speak unto them in parables?
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
But this parable He speaks, as anointing His disciples, and to teach them, that even though the lost be more than such as receive the word yet they are not to despond. For this was the ease even with their Lord, and He who fully foreknew that these things should be, did not desist from sowing.