Mark 4:13

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

World English Bible British

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

12that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”

14The farmer sows the word.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:51Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

Matthew 16:8Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason amongst yourselves, you of little faith, because you have brought no bread?

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

1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, 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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