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 4:34
Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
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Mark 4:30
He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
Mark 4:31
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,
Mark 4:32
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.”
Mark 4:33
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
Matthew 13:31
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,
Matthew 13:32
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.”
Matthew 13:33
He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”
Mark 2:20
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
Luke 13:18
He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?
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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 13:12
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
Matthew 13:13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
Matthew 13:14
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;
Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’
Matthew 13:16
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
Matthew 13:17
For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
Mark 4:11
He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Matthew 13:51
Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
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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.”
Mark 4:10
When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
Matthew 15:15
Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”
Mark 7:17
When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.
Mark 7:18
He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,
Luke 8:9
Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
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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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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.”
Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
Psalms 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.
Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
Mark 3:23
He summoned them and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
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Mark 4:1
Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
Mark 4:22
For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known, neither was anything made secret but that it should come to light.
Mark 4:35
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”
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Acts 8:30
Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
Acts 8:31
He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
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