Mark 4:13

World English Bible (2000)

He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

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  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
  • Matt 13:18-23 : 18 "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. 19 When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. 20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. 22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. 23 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."
  • Matt 13:51-52 : 51 Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?" They answered him, "Yes, Lord." 52 He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."
  • Matt 15:15-17 : 15 Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us." 16 So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand? 17 Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
  • Matt 16:8-9 : 8 Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?' 9 Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
  • Mark 7:17-18 : 17 When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,
  • Luke 8:11-15 : 11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. 13 Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation. 14 That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. 15 That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • Luke 24:25 : 25 He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
  • Heb 5:11-14 : 11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. 12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. 14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

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    9 He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

    10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

    11 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

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  • Matt 13:13-15
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    13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

    14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

    15 for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'

  • Luke 8:9-11
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    9 Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"

    10 He said, "To 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.'

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

  • Mark 8:21
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    21 He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"

  • Matt 13:9-11
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    9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

    10 The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

    11 He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

  • John 10:6
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    6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

  • Matt 13:18
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    18 "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

  • Matt 15:15-16
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    15 Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."

    16 So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand?

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    33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

    34 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

  • Mark 8:17-18
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    17 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

    18 Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?

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    34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

    35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."

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    3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

    4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

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    26 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

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    45 But they didn't understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

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    14 The farmer sows the word.

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    23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

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

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    16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

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    34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.

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    39 He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?

  • Mark 4:26-27
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    26 He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

    27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.

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    32 But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

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    18 He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?

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    15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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    41 Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"

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    20 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?

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    3 He told them this parable.