And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
He speaks in parables that he may also make his discourse more vivid, and fix the memory of it in them more perfectly, and bring the things before their sight, as did the prophets also. The Gospel of St. Matthew, Homily
