Mark 4:13

Then he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then 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

12so that when they look, yes they look, but do not see, 1 and so that when they hear, yes they hear, but do not understand, 1 or else they would turn and God would forgive them.”

14The farmer who sows his seed is the one who sows the word.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:51Have you understood all these things?” The disciples said to him, “Yes.”

Matthew 16:8Jesus was aware of this and said, “You of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves and say that it is because you have taken no bread?

Luke 8:11Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brothers, could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as to fleshly people, as to little children in Christ.

Revelation 3:19I train everyone whom I love, and I teach them how they should live. Therefore, be 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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