Mark 4:34

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Χωρὶς δὲ παραβολῆς οὐκ ἐλάλει αὐτοῖς: κατʼ ἰδίαν δὲ, τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ ἐπέλυεν πάντα.

Transliteration

Chōris de parabolēs not elalei to them: kat' idian de, to the mathētais of him epelyen panta.

Grammar Details

• *Chōris*: preposition + genitive - without/apart from
• *de*: conjunction - but/and
• *parabolēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - parable
• *elalei*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - he was speaking
• *kat' idian*: adverbial phrase - privately
• *mathētais*: dative, masculine, plural - disciples
• *epelyen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - he was explaining
• *panta*: accusative, neuter, plural - all things

Word Meanings

• *Chōris*: without/apart from
• *parabolēs*: parable/analogy/comparison
• *elalei*: he was speaking/talking
• *kat' idian*: privately/alone/in private
• *mathētais*: disciples/students/followers
• *epelyen*: he was explaining/interpreting/solving
• *panta*: all things/everything

Referenced Verses

• John 16:25 : 25 These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you plainly of the Father.
• Luke 24:27 : 27 And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
• Matt 13:36-43 : 36 [Then] [he] [left] [the] [multitudes,] [and went] [into] [the house:] [and] [his] [disciples] [came] [unto him,] [saying,] [Explain] [unto us] [the parable] [of the tares] [of the field.] 37 [And he answered] [and said,] [He that soweth] [the good] [seed] [is] [the Son] [of man;] 38 [and the field] [is] [the world;] [and the good] [seed,] [these] [are] [the sons] [of the kingdom;] [and the tares] [are] [the sons] [of the evil] [one]; 39 and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned with fire; so shall it be in the end of the world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity, 42 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears, let him hear.
• Matt 15:15-20 : 15 And Peter answered and said unto him, Declare unto us the parable. 16 And he said, Are ye also even yet without understanding? 17 Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? 18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings: 20 these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.
• Mark 4:10 : 10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parables.
• Mark 7:17-23 : 17 And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable. 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] {G1410} cannot defile him; 19 because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean. 20 And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: 23 all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.
• Luke 8:9-9 : 9 And his disciples asked him what this parable might be. 10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to the rest in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
• Luke 24:44-46 : 44 And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures; 46 and he said unto them, Thus it is written, {G2532} that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day;