Matthew 13:34
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
KJV
Ταῦτα πάντα ἐλάλησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐν παραβολαῖς τοῖς ὄχλοις, καὶ χωρὶς παραβολῆς οὐδὲν ἐλάλει αὐτοῖς·
Greek NT
Hæc omnia locutus est Jesus in parabolis ad turbas : et sine parabolis non loquebatur eis :
Vulgate
All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:
ASV
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- οὐδὲν — SBLGNT
- οὐδὲν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- οὐκ — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. But wherefore does He still go on, when the others have withdrawn, to speak to these also in parables? They had become wiser by His sayings, so as even to understand. At any rate, to them He says afterwards, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto Him, Yea, Lord. So completely, together with its other objects, did the parable effect this too, that it made them mor…
1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus. Then He left the multitudes and went into His house, and His disciples came unto Him saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36 When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave t…
Cross-references
- John 16:25 — These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
- John 16:25 — These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
- Judg 14:12 — And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty
- Mark 3:23 — And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
- Mark 4:2 — And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
- Mark 4:33 — And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
- Mark 4:33 — And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
- Matt 10:27 — What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
- Matt 13:3 — And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
- Matt 13:13 — Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
- Prov 1:6 — To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
- Ps 78:2 — I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: