Mark 4:13

“You do not know the meaning of this parable?” he went on, “Then how will you understand all the other parables?

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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

12‘Though they have eyes, they may see without perceiving; and though they have ears, they may hear without understanding; otherwise some day they might turn and be forgiven.’”

14The sower sows the message.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:51“Have you understood all this?” Jesus asked. “Yes,” they answered.

Matthew 16:8On noticing this, Jesus said, “Why are you talking among yourselves about your being short of bread, you of little faith?

Luke 8:11This is the parable – The seed is God’s message.

1 Corinthians 3:1But I, my friends, could not speak to you as people with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded – mere infants in the faith of Christ.

Revelation 3:19All whom I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be in earnest 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 →

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