Matthew 13:34

34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.

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Matthew 13:34 in Other Translations

KJV

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

ESV

34 All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable.

NLT

34 Jesus always used stories and illustrations like these when speaking to the crowds. In fact, he never spoke to them without using such parables.

MSG

34 All Jesus did that day was tell stories - a long storytelling afternoon.

CSB

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

Matthew 13:34 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 13:34

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude
In the hearing of his disciples, whilst in the ship, the multitude being on the shore,

in parables;
in the four foregoing ones;

and without a parable spake he not unto them:
not that he never had preached but in a parabolical way unto them, or that he never did afterwards use any other way of speaking; for it is certain, that both before and after, he delivered himself plainly, and without figures: but the meaning is, that in that sermon, and at that time, he thought fit to make use of no other method, as appears from the many other parables he afterwards delivered; and though he explained the meaning of some of them to his disciples, at their request, yet he dismissed the multitude without any explication of them.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Matthew 13:34 In-Context

32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.”

33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty poundsof flour until it worked all through the dough.”

34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them 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 creation of the world.”

36 Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”