Mark 4:2

Then he taught them many parables. While he was teaching them, he told them this:

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,

In Context

1Another time Jesus began to teach people alongside Lake Galilee. As he was doing that, a very large crowd gathered around him. Because people were jostling him, he got into a boat in the lake so that he could speak to the crowd better. Then he sat in it and began to teach the crowd from the boat. At the same time, the crowd was on the shore close to the lake.

3“Consider well the meaning of this illustration: A man/farmer went out to his field to sow some seeds.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:2I am going to give you some sayings that wise people have said. They will be sayings about things that happened long ago, things that were difficult to understand [MET],

Matthew 13:3He was telling them many parables. One of the parables that he told them was this: “Listen! A man went out to his field to sow some seeds.

Matthew 13:34Jesus told the crowd parables to teach them all these things. When he spoke [HYP] to them, he habitually used such illustrations.

Mark 4:11He 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.

Mark 12:38While Jesus was teaching the people, he said to them, “Beware that you do not act like the men who teach our Jewish laws. They like people to honor them, so they put on long robes and walk around in order to show people how important they are. They also like people to greet them respectfully in the marketplaces.

John 18:19While Peter was doing that, the high priest asked Jesus about his disciples and about what he was teaching people.

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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