Matthew 13:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³ Then he told them many things in parables,  saying, ‘Consider the sower who went out to sow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And He told them many things in parables (stories by way of illustration and comparison), saying, A sower went out to sow.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow;

Common English Bible

³ He said many things to them in parables: “A farmer went out to scatter seed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying: "Behold, a sower went out to sow seed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

Matthew 13:3 Cross References

Ezekiel 17:2

‘Son of man, pose a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, ‘Oh, Lord God, they are saying of me, “Isn’t he just composing parables? ” ’

Micah 2:4

In that day one will take up  a taunt against you and lament mournfully,   saying, ‘We are totally ruined! He measures out the allotted land of my people. How he removes it from me! He allots our fields  to traitors.’

Habakkuk 2:6

Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles about him? They will say, ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his – how much longer?   – and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.’

Matthew 13:4

As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

Matthew 13:53

When Jesus had finished these parables, he left there.

Matthew 22:1

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables:

Matthew 24:32

‘Learn this lesson   from the fig tree: As soon as its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.

Mark 12:1

He  began to speak to them in parables: ‘A man planted a vineyard,   put a fence round it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

Mark 12:12

They were looking for a way to arrest him but feared the crowd because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

Mark 3:23

So he summoned  them and spoke to them in parables:  ‘How can Satan   drive out Satan?

Mark 4:13

Then  he said to them, ‘Don’t you understand this parable?   How then will you understand all of the parables?

Mark 4:33

He was speaking the word  to them with many parables  like these, as they were able to understand.

Luke 12:41

‘Lord,’ Peter asked, ‘are you telling this parable to us or to everyone? ’

Luke 8:10

So he said, ‘The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you   to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that Looking they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.   ,

John 16:25

‘I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.