Mark 4:34 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ 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

³⁴ 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)

³⁴ and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.

Common English Bible

³⁴ He spoke to them only in parables, then explained everything to his disciples when he was alone with them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ But he did not speak to them without a parable. Yet separately, he explained all things to his disciples.

Mark 4:34 Cross References

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.

Mark 4:10

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

Luke 24:27

Then, beginning from [the writings of] Moses and all the prophets, Jesus explained to the two men about the things referring to Himself [contained] in all these Scripture passages.

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 4:33

And He spoke “the word” to them [i.e., the crowds] with as many such parables as they were able to receive.

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.

Acts 28:23

And when they had arranged a day, large numbers of people came to Paul's house. He explained [everything to them], testifying from morning until evening concerning the kingdom of God and concerning [the Messiahship of] Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from [the writings of] the prophets.