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

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

  • Matt 13:34-35
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    34Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not say anything to them without using a parable.

    35This 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.'

  • Mark 4:34
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    34He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately, he explained everything to his disciples.

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

    3Listen! A sower went out to sow.

    4As he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

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

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

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

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

    11He 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.'

    13He said to them, "Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

    14The sower sows the word.

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

    5A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some fell along the path; it was stepped on, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

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

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

    32But when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants, and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade.

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

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

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

    8Still 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."

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

    10And 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.’

    11Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

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

    8Still other seeds fell on good soil and yielded a crop—some one hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown.

    9Let anyone who has ears listen.

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    18So listen to the parable of the sower.

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

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    23But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears and understands the word. This person produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.

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