Matthew 13:34 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds with parables. He did not say anything to them without using a parable.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ These things all taken together Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, without a parable He said nothing to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:

Common English Bible

³⁴ Jesus said all these things to the crowds in parables, and he spoke to them only in parables.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the crowds. And he did not speak to them apart from parables,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.

Matthew 13:34 Cross References

Matthew 13:13

Therefore, I am speaking to them with parables because [although] they can see, they [really] do not perceive, and [although] they can hear, they [really] do not comprehend, and so they [utterly] fail to understand [what I am trying to get across].

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.

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.

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.

John 16:29

[Then] Jesus’ disciples said [to Him], “Look, you are speaking plainly now, and not in figurative language.