Mark 4:10 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁰ And when He was alone those people who gathered around Him, along with the twelve apostles, asked Him what the parables meant.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ And as soon as He was alone, those who were around Him, with the Twelve [apostles], began to ask Him about the parables.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parables.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ When they were alone, the people around Jesus, along with the Twelve, asked him about the parables.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ And when he was alone, the twelve, who were with him, questioned him about the parable.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ And when he was alone, the twelve that were with him asked him the parable.

Mark 4:10 Cross References

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.

Matthew 13:36

He then left the crowds and went into the house. [While there] His disciples came to Him, and said, “Explain to us [the meaning of] the parable of the weeds in the field.”

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 4:34

And He did not speak to them [i.e., concerning the kingdom] without using a parable, but He explained everything to His own disciples privately.

Mark 4:9

And Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear with ought to listen [to this] carefully.”

Mark 7:17

And when He had gone into the house away from the crowd His disciples asked Him about this parable.