Mark 4:13

13 Then Jesus said to his followers, "Don't you understand this story? If you don't, how will you understand any story?

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 Jesus said, "You can know the secret about the kingdom of God. But to other people I tell everything by using stories

12 so that: 'They will look and look, but they will not learn. They will listen and listen, but they will not understand. If they did learn and understand, they would come back to me and be forgiven.'"

13 Then Jesus said to his followers, "Don't you understand this story? If you don't, how will you understand any story?

14 The farmer is like a person who plants God's message in people.

15 Sometimes the teaching falls on the road. This is like the people who hear the teaching of God, but Satan quickly comes and takes away the teaching that was planted in them.