Jesus perceived the disciples’ thoughts, and did not reprove their questionings. Their complaints had to do not with their perversity as with unbelievers, but was due to their misunderstanding of the parables of Christ’s mystery. But before Jesus gives them knowledge, he clears up for them the obscurity of the parable, the fullest explanation of the saving plan for the world.
Yesu alitambua mawazo ya wanafunzi wake, wala hakukaripia kuuliza-uliza kwao. Kunung’unika kwao haikuwa kwa sababu ya ukaidi fulani, kama kwa wale ambao hawakumwamini, bali ilikuwa tu kwa kutokuelewa kwao kwa habari ya mifano ya siri za Kristo. Lakini kabla ya Yesu kuwapatia ufahamu, anawaondolea kwanza fumbo la mfano huo, maelezo kamili ya mpango wa kuokoa ulimwengu,