Mark 3:23 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²³ And He called them to Him and began speaking to them in parables [i.e., brief stories to illustrate His teaching], saying, “How can Satan drive out Satan?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ And He summoned them to Him and said to them in parables (illustrations or comparisons put beside truths to explain them), How can Satan drive out Satan?

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

Common English Bible

²³ When Jesus called them together he spoke to them in a parable: “How can Satan throw Satan out?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And having called them together, he spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan?

Mark 3:23 Cross References

Matthew 13:34

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

Mark 4:2

He taught the people many things using parables [to illustrate His lessons]. In His teaching He said to them,

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus replied to him, “Get away from me Satan, for it is written [Deut. 6:13], ‘You are supposed to worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him.’”

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.

Mark 3:24

And if a kingdom is plagued by internal division, it will never survive.

Mark 4:11

He said to them, “You disciples are being given an understanding of the secret of the kingdom of God, but to outsiders everything will be told in parables.

Mark 12:1

Jesus began speaking to them [i.e., to the leading priests and experts in the Law of Moses (See 11:18) or, to the people (See Luke 20:19)] by using parables. He said, “A man planted a vineyard and built a fence around it. He dug a place for constructing a grape squeezing device, built a [lookout] tower [near it], then leased it out to tenant farmers and went to another country.