Matthew 13:35 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

This was in fulfillment of what was spoken by the prophet: I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things that have been hidden since the foundation of the world. [Ps. 78:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

Common English Bible

This was to fulfill what the prophet spoke: I’ll speak in parables; I’ll declare what has been hidden since the beginning of the world.

Catholic Public Domain Version

in order to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet, saying: "I will open my mouth in parables. I will proclaim what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

Matthew 13:35 Cross References

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

Isaiah 42:9

Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

Amos 3:7

Surely the Lord God does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Matthew 13:14

With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: ‘You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive.

Matthew 13:3

And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.

Matthew 25:34

Then the King will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Matthew 5:2

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Luke 10:14

But it shall be more tolerable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

John 17:24

Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world.

Acts 15:18

says the Lord, who has made these things known from of old.’

1 Corinthians 2:7

But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.

Ephesians 3:5

which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

Ephesians 3:9

and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things;

Hebrews 1:1

In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets;

Revelation 13:8

and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.

Revelation 17:8

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to perdition; and the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will marvel to behold the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.