Mark 4:10
When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
World Messianic Bible
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
9He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Cross References
Matthew 13:10The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
Mark 4:34Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
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 →