Not everyone who asked about Jesus’ stories stayed. If you come to Mass, you’re asking, but not everyone who comes to Mass stays – it happens all the time. People get baptized, or have their first communion, or get confirmed, and after that the next time they’re in church, they are the guest of honor at a funeral.

Children don’t have an innate knowledge of God any more than they have an innate knowledge of spelling. They have to be taught. They don’t have an innate knowledge of virtue either. They have to be taught. Children do have the innate capacity to learn those things, but they cannot learn without teachers.

Not all the Scribes in Jesus’ time were His opponents. Jesus made disciples to function as Scribes, preserving and explaining His teaching. He has been making Scribes for a long time. He makes them still.

There is no verse in Matthew that shows Jesus actually teaching a crowd. All of Jesus’ teaching in Matthew was done in smaller venues, with small groups. The same was true for St. Paul. There are no texts showing Paul teaching crowds either. He preferred smaller, more intimate settings for his teaching, too.