Mark 4:33
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
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- John 16:12 : 12 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
- 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 when by reason of the time you ought to 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.
- Matt 13:34-35 : 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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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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34 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained all things.
- Mark 4:2-43 verses79%
2 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
3 "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
4 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds{TR adds "of the air"} came and devoured it.
- Mark 4:7-148 verses79%
7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
8 Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."
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,
12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"
13 He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
14 The farmer sows the word.
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4 When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.
5 "The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
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30 He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
31 It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,
32 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."
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23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
24 He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.
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26 He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
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7 Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
8 Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one hundred times." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
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.
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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:
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7 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them:
8 and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
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?"
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18 "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
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18 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
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23 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most assuredly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."
24 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
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31 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;
32 which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches."
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16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
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15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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29 He told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the trees.
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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.