Matthew 13:10
The disciples came to Jesus and asked him, “Why do you use illustrations when you speak to the people?”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
In Context
9Anybody who has ears should be listening!”
Cross References
Mark 4:10When he was by himself, his twelve disciples and the others who were with him asked him what the illustrations meant.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 13:2-24
The Parable of the Sower; Why Christ Taught in Parables; Of the Sower and the Seed. 1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where… Read the whole commentary →