32. After a while it grows up and becomes the biggest of all plants. It puts out such large branches that the birds come and make their nests in its shade.”
33. Jesus preached his message to the people, using many other parables like these; he told them as much as they could understand.
34. He would not speak to them without using parables, but when he was alone with his disciples, he would explain everything to them.
35. On the evening of that same day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.”
36. So they left the crowd; the disciples got into the boat in which Jesus was already sitting, and they took him with them. Other boats were there too.