Mark 4:13

13 Then Yeshua said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you be able to understand any parable?

Mark 4:13 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 4:13

And he saith unto them, know ye not this parable?
&c.] So easy to be understood, taken from things common, and which fall under every one's observation:

and how then will you know all parables?
if not this single one, and which is so plain, how will ye be able to understand the numerous parables hereafter to be related, and which will be much more difficult?

Mark 4:13 In-Context

11 He answered them, "To you the secret of the Kingdom of God has been given; but to those outside, everything is in parables,
12 so that they may be always looking but never seeing; always listening but never understanding. Otherwise, they might turn and be forgiven!"
13 Then Yeshua said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you be able to understand any parable?
14 The sower sows the message.
15 Those alongside the path where the message is sown are people who no sooner hear it than the Adversary comes and takes away the message sown in them.
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