Matthew 13:34
◄  Matthew 13:34  ►
New International Version (©2011)
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Jesus always used stories and illustrations like these when speaking to the crowds. In fact, he never spoke to them without using such parables.

English Standard Version (©2001)
All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and He would not speak anything to them without a parable,

International Standard Version (©2012)
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

NET Bible (©2006)
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Yeshua spoke all these things in parables to the crowds and without a parable he was not speaking with them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Jesus used illustrations to tell the crowds all these things. He did not tell them anything without illustrating it with a story.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
All these things spoke Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spoke he not unto them:

American King James Version
All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude in parables; and without a parable spoke he not to them:

American Standard Version
All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:

Douay-Rheims Bible
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.

Darby Bible Translation
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,

English Revised Version
All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:

Webster's Bible Translation
All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable he spoke not to them:

Weymouth New Testament
All this Jesus spoke to the people in figurative language, and except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them,

World English Bible
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

Young's Literal Translation
All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude,.... In the hearing of his disciples, whilst in the ship, the multitude being on the shore,

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That it might be fulfilled - This is taken from Psalm 78:2-3. The sense, and not the very words of the Psalm, are given. Christ taught, as did that prophet - Asaph - in parables. The words of Asaph described the manner in which Christ taught, and in this sense it could be said that they were fulfilled. See the notes at Matthew 1:22-23.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

All these things spoke Jesus - in parables - Christ descends from Divine mysteries to parables, in order to excite us to raise our minds, from and through natural things, to the great God, and the operations of his grace and Spirit. Divine things cannot be taught to man but through the medium of earthly things. If God should speak to us in that language which is peculiar to heaven, clothing those ideas which angelic minds form, how little should we comprehend of the things thus described! How great is our privilege in being thus taught! Heavenly things, in the parables of Christ, assume to themselves a body, and thus render themselves palpable.

Geneva Study Bible

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

People's New Testament

13:34 Without a parable spake he not. On that occasion. His whole discourse to the multitude was made up of parables.

Wesley's Notes

13:34 Without a parable spake he not unto them - That is, not at that time; at other times he did.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

34. All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them-that is, on this occasion; refraining not only from all naked discourse, but even from all interpretation of these parables to the mixed multitude.

Matthew 13:34 Parallel Commentaries
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I will Open My Mouth in Parables
34All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude in parables; and without a parable spoke he not to them: 35That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. 36Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came to him, saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field.

Matthew 13:3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed.
Mark 4:34 He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.
John 10:6 Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.
John 16:25 "Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.
John 16:29 Then Jesus' disciples said, "Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech.