Matthew 13:34 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds with parables. He did not say anything to them without using a parable.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

These things all taken together Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, without a parable He said nothing to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:

Common English Bible

Jesus said all these things to the crowds in parables, and he spoke to them only in parables.

Catholic Public Domain Version

All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the crowds. And he did not speak to them apart from parables,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.

Matthew 13:34 Cross References

Matthew 13:13

Therefore, I am speaking to them with parables because [although] they can see, they [really] do not perceive, and [although] they can hear, they [really] do not comprehend, and so they [utterly] fail to understand [what I am trying to get across].

Matthew 13:3

And He spoke many things to them in parables [i.e., brief stories to illustrate His teaching], saying, “once a farmer went out [to his field] to plant grain.

John 10:6

Jesus told them this parable [i.e., a brief story to illustrate his teaching] but they did not understand what it meant.

John 16:25

“I have spoken these things to you in figurative language. [However], the time will come when I will not speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

John 16:29

[Then] Jesus’ disciples said [to Him], “Look, you are speaking plainly now, and not in figurative language.