Matthew 13:10

Then the disciples came, and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

In Context

9He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

11And he answered, and said vnto them, Because it is giuen vnto you, to know the secretes of the kingdome of heauen, but to the it is not giue.

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Cross References

Mark 4:10And whe he was alone, they that were about him with the twelue, asked him of ye parable.

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 →

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