Mark 4:13

13 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?

Mark 4:13 in Other Translations

13 And he said unto them,Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

13 And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

13 Then Jesus said to them, “If you can’t understand the meaning of this parable, how will you understand all the other parables?

13 He continued, "Do you see how this story works? All my stories work this way.

13 Then He said to them: "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand any of the parables?

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 told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables

12 so that, “ ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’”

13 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?

14 The farmer sows the word.

15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.