Mark 4:34 — Meaning and Application

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“But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.”

Mark 4:34

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But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

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

But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.

And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.

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Mark 4:1

"And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land."

Mark 4:2

"And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,"

Mark 4:3

"Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:"

Mark 4:4

"And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up."

Mark 4:5

"And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:"

Mark 4:6

"But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away."

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