Mark 4:33

With many other parables like these, Jesus kept speaking his message to them according to their ability to understand.

"I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

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

Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in the Messiah.

We have much to say about this, but it is difficult to explain because 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. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

"I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in the Messiah.

We have much to say about this, but it is difficult to explain because you have become too lazy to understand.

"Son of Man, compose a riddle and relate a parable to Israel's house.

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

Again Jesus spoke to them in parables. He said,