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Mark 4:34
Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

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Mark 4:33
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

Matthew 13:10
The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

Matthew 13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Matthew 13:34
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,

Matthew 13:35
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.”

Matthew 13:36
Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”

Matthew 15:15
Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”

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2 Peter 1:20
knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

Luke 8:11
“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Luke 24:27
Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Matthew 13:37
He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

Matthew 24:33
Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that he is near, even at the doors.

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