33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.



Ver. 33. As they were able to hear] Not as he was able to have spoken: a minister must masticate his matter as nurses do their children’s meat, and speak to his hearers’ shallow capacities: or else he shall be a barbarian to them, and they to him. He is the best preacher, saith Luther, that preacheth commonly, trivially.