Mark 4:2 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

He used stories as illustrations to teach them many things. While he was teaching them, he said,(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his teaching,

BBE:

And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear:

DBY:

And he taught them many things in parables. And he said to them in his doctrine,

ERV:

And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his teaching,

WEY:

Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language; and in His teaching He said,

WBS:

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

WEB:

He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

YLT:

and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:

Mark 4:2 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 13:3 And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, "Behold, the sower went out to sow;

Mark 3:23 And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

4:2 He taught them many things by parables - After the usual manner of the eastern nations, to make his instructions more agreeable to them, and to impress them the more upon attentive hearers. A parable signifies not only a simile or comparison, and sometimes a proverb, but any kind of instructive speech, wherein spiritual things are explained and illustrated by natural, Prov 1:6. To understand a proverb and the interpretation - The proverb is the literal sense, the interpretation is the spiritual resting in the literal sense killeth, but the spiritual giveth life.

MHC:

4:1-20 This parable contained instruction so important, that all capable of hearing were bound to attend to it. There are many things we are concerned to know; and if we understand not the plain truths of the gospel, how shall we learn those more difficult! It will help us to value the privileges we enjoy as disciples of Christ, if we seriously consider the deplorable state of all who have not such privileges. In the great field of the church, the word of God is dispensed to all. Of the many that hear the word of the gospel, but few receive it, so as to bring forth fruit. Many are much affected with the word for the present, who yet receive no abiding benefit. The word does not leave abiding impressions upon the minds of men, because their hearts are not duly disposed to receive it. The devil is very busy about careless hearers, as the fowls of the air go about the seed that lies above ground. Many continue in a barren, false profession, and go down to hell. Impressions that are not deep, will not last. Many do not mind heart-work, without which religion is nothing. Others are hindered from profiting by the word of God, by abundance of the world. And those who have but little of the world, may yet be ruined by indulging the body. God expects and requires fruit from those who enjoy the gospel, a temper of mind and Christian graces daily exercised, Christian duties duly performed. Let us look to the Lord, that by his new-creating grace our hearts may become good ground, and that the good seed of the word may produce in our lives those good words and works which are through Jesus Christ, to the praise and glory of God the Father.

CONC:

Doctrine Ear Figurative Form Language Lessons Parables Proceeded Saying Similes Stories Taught Teach Teaching

Doctrine Ear Figurative Form Lessons Parables Proceeded Similes Stories Taught Teach Teaching

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