Mark 4:13
And he says to them, Do ye not know this parable? And how will ye understand all the parables?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
In Context
14The man who sows sows the word.
Cross References
Matthew 13:51Jesus says to them, Have ye understood all these things? They say to him, Yes, Lord.
Matthew 16:8And having known it, Jesus said to them, O ye of little faith, why do ye deliberate among yourselves because ye brought no loaves?
Luke 8:11Now the parable is this. The seed is the word of God.
1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.
Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
Matthew Henry on Mark 4:2-21
The Parable of the Sower. 1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. 5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had… Read the whole commentary →