Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 13:10

10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

Luke saith, Ch. 8, 9. His Disciples asked him, saying, What might this Parable be? Mark saith, When he was alone, those that were about him with the twelve, asked of him the Parable. It should seem, that his twelve Apostles understood his meaning, but others that with them were about him, when the multitude were gone did not: They therefore desire of him, 1. That they might understand the reason, why he spake to the multitude in dark Sayings, and Similitudes, without plainly opening his meaning to them. 2. They own their own dulness of understanding, and confess that they themselves were ignorant, and therefore desired him, that he would tell them the meaning of this Parable, with which he had entertained the multitude. The[illegible: 2 letters] staying with the twelve, when the Generality of the multitudes were departed, argued that they came with a desire to lea[illegible: 2 letters], and to be in[illegible: 2 letters]ructed, not out of a meer Curiosity to see Christ▪ or in a meer Formality. They shew both their Charity, in desiring others might be intelligibly instructed: And their Piety in desiring, that they might be more fully themselves instructed.