Mark 4:33

He would speak the word to them with many parables like these, as they were able to understand.

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and He would not speak anything to them without a parable,

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand.

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

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and He would not speak anything to them without a parable,

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand.

“Son of man, pose a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel.

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and He would not speak anything to them without a parable,

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables: