Mark 4:34
Good News Translation
He would not speak to them without using parables, but when he was alone with his disciples, he would explain everything to them.

New Revised Standard Version
he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.

Contemporary English Version
He did not tell them anything without using stories. But when he was alone with his disciples, he explained everything to them.

New American Bible
Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.

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Mark 4:10 And when he was alone, the twelve that were with him asked him the parable.

Mark 7:17-23 And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable. . . .

Matthew 13:36 Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the cockle of the field.

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Matthew 15:15 And Peter answering, said to him: Expound to us this parable.

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Luke 8:9 And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.

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Luke 24:27,44-46 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him. . . .

Context
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
33And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear. 34And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples. 35And he saith to them that day, when evening was come: Let us pass over to the other side.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:34
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.

Mark 4:33
And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear.

Luke 24:27
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him.

John 10:6
This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke.

John 16:25
These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

Acts 28:23
And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to him unto his lodgings. To whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning until evening.

Mark 4:33
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