Mark 4:10

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

Cross References

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 7:17

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

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.”

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.

Mark 4:9

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

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.