Mark 4:33

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With many such parables, he spoke the word to them, as much as they were able to understand.

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  • John 16:12 : 12 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as spiritual people but as those who are worldly, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, because you were not able to receive it. Even now, you are still not able.
  • Heb 5:11-14 : 11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you have become dull in hearing. 12 By this time you ought to be teachers, but instead you need someone to teach you again the elementary truths of God's word, and you need milk, not solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is still an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, those who through practice have trained their senses to discern good from evil.
  • Matt 13:34-35 : 34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not say anything to them without using a parable. 35 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet: 'I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.'

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    3 Then he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, "Listen! A sower went out to sow.

    4 As he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them.

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    35 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet: 'I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.'

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    34 He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately, he explained everything to his disciples.

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    2 He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching, he told them:

    3 Listen! A sower went out to sow.

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    7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, so it didn’t produce any grain.

    8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It grew, producing fruit that increased and yielded thirty, sixty, and a hundred times what was sown.

    9 Then Jesus said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear."

    10 When he was alone, those around him, along with the twelve, asked him about the parable.

    11 He answered them, "The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything is spoken in parables.

    12 "So that, 'Though they see, they may see and not perceive; and though they hear, they may hear and not understand; otherwise they might turn back and be forgiven.'

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    4 When a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Him from every city, He spoke in a parable:

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    30 He also said, 'To what can we compare the kingdom of God? Or with what parable can we illustrate it?'

    31 It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth.

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    23 If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.

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    26 He also said, "The kingdom of God is like this: A man scatters seed on the ground.

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    7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.

    8 Still other seed fell on good soil, grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times what was sown. As He said this, He cried out, "Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear."

    9 Then His disciples asked Him, "What does this parable mean?"

    10 And He said, "The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to others, I speak in parables so that, ‘Though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’

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    7 Other seeds fell among thorns, which grew up and choked them.

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    18 Others are like the seed sown among thorns: these are the ones who hear the word,

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