Matthew 13:9
If you want to understand this [MTY], you should consider carefully what I have just said.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
In Context
10We disciples approached Jesus and asked him, “Why do you use parables when you speak to the crowd?”
Cross References
Matthew 13:16But as for you, God is pleased with you because you [SYN] have seen what I have done and because you [SYN] understand what I say [DOU].
Mark 4:23If you want to understand this, you should consider carefully what you have just heard.”
Revelation 2:7Everyone who wants to understand my message [MTY] must listen carefully to the message that God’s Spirit speaks to the congregations. To everyone who overcomes Satan, I will give the right to eat fruit [MTY] from the tree that gives eternal life, the tree that is in God’s garden.’”
Revelation 2:17Everyone who wants to understand [MTY] must listen carefully to the message that God’s Spirit speaks to the congregations. To everyone who conquers Satan, I will give blessings that will be like the food called manna that is in a jar that is {that someone has} hidden. I will also give them a white stone on which I will engrave a new name, a name that no one but the ones who receive it will know.’”
Revelation 3:6Everyone who wants to understand [MTY] must listen carefully to the message that God’s Spirit speaks to the congregations.’”
Revelation 3:22Everyone who wants to understand [MTY] must listen carefully to the message that God’s Spirit speaks to the congregations.’”
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 →