Mark 4:33
New International Version
With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand.

New Living Translation
Jesus used many similar stories and illustrations to teach the people as much as they could understand.

English Standard Version
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

Berean Standard Bible
With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand.

Berean Literal Bible
And with many such parables He kept speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear,

King James Bible
And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.

New King James Version
And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.

New American Standard Bible
And with many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to understand it;

NASB 1995
With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;

NASB 1977
And with many such parables He was speaking the word to them as they were able to hear it;

Legacy Standard Bible
And with many such parables He was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear it;

Amplified Bible
With many such parables, Jesus spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear and understand it;

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He would speak the word to them with many parables like these, as they were able to understand.

American Standard Version
And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yeshua was speaking parables like these with them, parables such as they were able to hear.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus used many other stories when he spoke to the people, and he taught them as much as they could understand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear.

English Revised Version
And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus spoke [God's] word to them using many illustrations like these. In this way people could understand what he taught.

Good News Translation
Jesus preached his message to the people, using many other parables like these; he told them as much as they could understand.

International Standard Version
With many other parables like these, Jesus kept speaking his message to them according to their ability to understand.

Literal Standard Version
And with many such allegories He was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,

Majority Standard Bible
With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand.

New American Bible
With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it.

NET Bible
So with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.

New Revised Standard Version
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it;

New Heart English Bible
And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

Webster's Bible Translation
And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

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

World English Bible
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

Young's Literal Translation
And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,

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Context
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
32But after it is planted, it grows to be the largest of all garden plants and puts forth great branches, so that the birds of the air nest in its shade.” 33 With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand. 34He did not tell them anything without using a parable. But privately He explained everything to His own disciples.…

Cross References
Matthew 13:3
And He told them many things in parables, saying, "A farmer went out to sow his seed.

Mark 4:32
But after it is planted, it grows to be the largest of all garden plants and puts forth great branches, so that the birds of the air nest in its shade."

Mark 4:34
He did not tell them anything without using a parable. But privately He explained everything to His own disciples.


Treasury of Scripture

And with many such parables spoke he the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

with.

Matthew 13:34,35
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: …

as.

John 16:12
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

1 Corinthians 3:1,2
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ…

Hebrews 5:11-14
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing…

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1. The parable of the sower,
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(33-34) And with many such parables.--See Notes on Matthew 13:34-35. St. Mark's omission of the reference to Psalm 78:2, and his addition of "as they were able to hear it," are, each of them, characteristic. It may be noted that the "many such parables" of St. Mark imply something like the series which we find in St. Matthew.

Verses 33, 34. - With many such parables; such, that is, as he had just been delivering - plain and simple illustrations which all might understand; not abstruse and difficult similitudes, but sufficiently plain for them to perceive that there was heavenly and Divine truth lying hidden beneath them, so that they might be drawn onwards through that which they did understand, to search into something hidden beneath it, which at present they did not know. But privately to his own disciples he expounded (ἐπέλυε) all things. This word (ἐπιλύω) occurs nowhere else in the Gospels. But it does occur in St. Peter's second Epistle (2 Peter 1:20), "No Scripture is of any private (ἐπιλύσεως) exposition, or interpretation." This suggests a connection between St. Mark's Gospel and that Epistle, and may be accepted as an auxiliary evidence, however small, as to the genuineness of the Epistle.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
With many such
πολλαῖς (pollais)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 4183: Much, many; often.

parables
παραβολαῖς (parabolais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3850: From paraballo; a similitude, i.e. fictitious narrative, apothegm or adage.

[Jesus] spoke
ἐλάλει (elalei)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2980: A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

word
λόγον (logon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.

to them,
αὐτοῖς (autois)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

to the extent that
καθὼς (kathōs)
Adverb
Strong's 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.

they could
ἠδύναντο (ēdynanto)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1410: (a) I am powerful, have (the) power, (b) I am able, I can. Of uncertain affinity; to be able or possible.

understand.
ἀκούειν (akouein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 191: To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear.


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