Mark 4:13

And he said to them: Do ye not understand this similitude? And how will ye understand all similitudes?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 when they see, they may see and not see, and when they hear, they may hear and not understand; lest they should be converted, and their sins be forgiven them.

14The sower that sowed, sowed the word.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:51Jesus said to them: Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes, our Lord.

Matthew 16:8But Jesus knew it and said to them: O ye small in faith! why reason ye among yourselves because ye have taken no bread?

Luke 8:11But this is the similitude: The seed is the word of God.

1 Corinthians 3:1And I, my Brethren, could not talk with you, as with spiritual persons, but as with the carnal, as with babes in Messiah.

Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be emulous 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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