Mark 4:10
When he was alone with the twelve and the others who were around him, they asked him about the parable.
Text-Critical English NT
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 he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Cross References
Matthew 13:10Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do yoʋ speak to the people in parables?”
Mark 4:34He did not speak to them without using a parable, but privately he explained everything to his disciples.
Luke 8:9Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
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 →