Matthew 13:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁴ Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing.

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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

The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’

Matthew 13:3

And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow.

John 10:6

Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

John 16:25

“I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but will tell you plainly of the Father.

John 16:29

His disciples said, “Yes, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure of speech!