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Matthew 13:34

Jesus

32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

33 He 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.”

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

35 So 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.”

36 Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
KJV
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
WEB
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,
ASV
All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:
DARBY
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,
BLB
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the crowds, and without a parable He was not speaking to them,
ÅB
Alt dette talte Jesus til folket i lignelser, og han talte ikke noe til dem uten lignelser.
OTB
Jesus talte alt dette til folkemengdene i lignelser; han talte ikke til dem uten å bruke en lignelse.
B1930
Alt dette talte Jesus i lignelser til folket, og uten lignelser talte han ikke noget til dem,

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Mark 4:33–34

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

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  • John 16:25

    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.

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  • Matthew 13:13

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

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