Mark 4:33

Weymouth NT

With many such parables He used to speak the Message to them according to their capacity for receiving it.

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He then spoke many things to them in figurative language. »The sower goes out,« He said, »to sow.

yet when sown it springs up and becomes larger than all the herbs, and throws out great branches, so that the birds build under its shadow.«

But except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them; while to His own disciples He expounded everything, in private.

»I have much more to say to you, but you are unable at present to bear the burden of it.«