Mark 4:10

Later, when only the twelve disciples and a few other people were with him, they asked him about the parables.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

In Context

9Then Jesus said, “If you want to understand this [MTY], you should consider carefully what I have just said.”

11He said to them, “People have not understood before the new message about how God wants to rule people’s lives. It is to you that this is being made known {that I am making this known}. But I tell about this only ◄in parables/figuratively► to those who have not yet invited God to rule their lives.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:10We disciples approached Jesus and asked him, “Why do you use parables when you speak to the crowd?”

Mark 4:34He always used parables when he spoke to them. But he explained all the illustrations to his own disciples when he was alone with them.

Luke 8:9Jesus’ disciples later asked him about the meaning of the parable he had just told.

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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