“And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.”
After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable — the movement from public teaching to private explanation is the same pattern as chapter 4: the public crowd receives the general principle; the disciples ask for elaboration. They identify the teaching as a parable — it was not a story narrative but a principle-statement that requires interpretive unpacking. The house is the recurring locus of private instruction throughout Mark.
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