Mark 4:34

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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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?

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.

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Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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.

Matthew 13:51
Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

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?”

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.

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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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.”

Luke 13:18
He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?

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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.

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