Mark 4:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He did not tell them anything without a parable; but privately to His disciples (those who were peculiarly His own) He explained everything [fully].

American Standard Version (1901)

and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.

Common English Bible

He spoke to them only in parables, then explained everything to his disciples when he was alone with them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But he did not speak to them without a parable. Yet separately, he explained all things to his disciples.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.

Mark 4:34 Cross References

Matthew 13:34

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing.

Mark 4:10

When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables.

Mark 4:33

With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it;

Luke 24:27

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures.

John 10:6

Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

John 16:25

“I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but will tell you plainly of the Father.

Acts 28:23

After they had set a day to meet with him, they came to him at his lodgings in great numbers. From morning until evening he explained the matter to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.