In these verses, we have, I. Another reason given why Christ preached by parables, Matt. 13:34 , 35 . All these things he spoke in parables , because the time was not yet come for the more clear and plain discoveries of the mysteries of the kingdom. Christ, to keep the people attending and expecting, preached in parables, and without a parable spake he not unto them ; namely, at this time and in t...