Verse 13

And he said to them, Do you not know this parable? How then will you know all parables?

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  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
  • Matt 13:18-23 : 18 Listen then to what the parable of the sower means. 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. 20 The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21 But they have no root and last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. 23 But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.
  • Matt 13:51-52 : 51 Have you understood all these things? Jesus asked. Yes, they replied. 52 He said to them, Therefore every teacher of the law who is instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.
  • Matt 15:15-17 : 15 Then Peter answered and said to him, Explain to us this parable. 16 And Jesus said, Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not yet understand, that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the waste?
  • Matt 16:8-9 : 8 Which when Jesus perceived, He said to them, O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves, because you have brought no bread? 9 Do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
  • Mark 7:17-18 : 17 And when he had entered a house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. 18 And he said to them, Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,
  • Luke 8:11-15 : 11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the wayside are they that hear; then comes the devil, and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. 13 They on the rock are they, who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. 14 And that which fell among thorns are they, who, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to maturity. 15 But that on the good ground are they, who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • Luke 24:25 : 25 Then he said to them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to infants in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.
  • Heb 5:11-14 : 11 Of whom we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God; you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.