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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Deuteronomy 33:3
Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.
2 Samuel 12:25
and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.
2 Chronicles 9:2
Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her.
Psalms 25:14
The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
Proverbs 1:1
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
Proverbs 1:5
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;
Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 18:4
The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
Isaiah 8:16
Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.
Isaiah 54:13
All your children will be taught by Yahweh, and your children’s peace will be great.
John 16:29
His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Revelation 2:17
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows but he who receives it.
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Judges 14:12
Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
Judges 14:13
but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.” They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.”
Judges 14:14
He said to them, “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.
1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.
Matthew 22:2
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,
Matthew 25:1
“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
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Daniel 12:9
He said, “Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
Daniel 12:10
Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.
Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
Matthew 11:25
At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
Matthew 24:15
“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Mark 9:28
When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”
Mark 10:10
In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
Luke 10:23
Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,
John 16:25
“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
1 John 5:20
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
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Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
Matthew 15:17
Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?
Matthew 16:11
How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Mark 8:17
Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet or understand? Is your heart still hardened?
Mark 8:18
Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?
Mark 8:31
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark 8:32
He spoke to them openly. Peter took him and began to rebuke him.
Mark 9:31
for he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”
Mark 10:32
They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.
Luke 9:44
“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”
Luke 9:45
But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
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Mark 1:14
Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,
Mark 1:15
and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
Mark 1:39
He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.
Mark 2:13
He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.
Mark 10:1
He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.
Mark 12:1
He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
Mark 13:3
As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,
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Matthew 9:28
When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
Matthew 13:1
On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.
Matthew 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
Matthew 13:18
“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
Matthew 13:23
What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
Matthew 13:52
He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”
Matthew 13:53
When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.
Mark 4:2
He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
Mark 4:12
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.’ ”
Mark 4:13
He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
Mark 4:26
He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
Mark 4:27
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.
Luke 8:10
He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
Luke 17:21
neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”
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Mark 4:21
He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?
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Mark 7:14
He called all the multitude to himself and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
Mark 7:15
There is nothing from outside of the man that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
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Luke 8:12
Those along the road are those who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.
Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
Luke 8:14
What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life; and they bring no fruit to maturity.
Luke 8:15
Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
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Luke 13:19
It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”
Luke 13:20
Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?
Luke 13:21
It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”
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Acts 19:39
But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
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Acts 2:46
Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
Acts 5:42
Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.
Acts 20:20
how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
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