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Matthew 13:34

Matthew 13:34 is verse 34 of Matthew chapter 13, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

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Matthew 13:32–36 · Berean Standard Bible

32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

36 Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Matthew 13:13

This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’

Mark 4:33

With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand.

Mark 4:34

He did not tell them anything without using a parable. But privately He explained everything to His own disciples.

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