"And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear {it}." — Mark 4:33

Mark 4:33 · KJV

“And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear {it}.”

— Mark 4:33

But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

Verse 34

But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

Mark 4 — Context

{It is} like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear {it}.

But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.

Cross References

Matthew 13:34-35

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

John 16:12

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

1 Corinthians 3:1-2

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, {even} as unto babes in Christ.

Hebrews 5:11-14

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.