Mark 4:13

"You do not understand this parable," said Jesus. "Then how will you understand the other parables?

Montgomery New Testament

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, "for all their looking they may not see, and for all their hearing, they may not understand, lest perchance they should turn and be pardoned.

14"What the Sower sows is the Word. There are those ‘on the wayside’ where the Word is sown.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:51"Have you understood all this?" he asked. "We have," they answered him.

Matthew 16:8When Jesus knew it he said. "Weaklings in faith! Why are you arguing among yourselves, because you have no bread?

Luke 8:11"This is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God.

1 Corinthians 3:1As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

Revelation 3:19All whom I love I reprove and discipline; therefore be full of zeal 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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