Matthew 13:34 “Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tel…”

Matthew 13:34

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

World English Bible

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,

American Standard Version

All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:

Geneva Bible 1599

All these thinges spake Iesus vnto the multitude in parables, and without parables spake he not to them,

Darby Translation

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,

Young's Literal Translation

All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

Bible in Basic English

All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

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Cross references

“All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:”

Matthew 13:13 Mark 4:33 Mark 4:34

Matthew 13:13 · BSB

This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’

Mark 4:33 · BSB

With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand.

Mark 4:34 · BSB

He did not tell them anything without using a parable. But privately He explained everything to His own disciples.

Also

John 16:25

John 16:25 · BSB

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

33He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

35So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

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