13He said to them, |Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?


In Context

10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

11 He said to them, |To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'|

13 He said to them, |Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

14 The farmer sows the word.

15 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

Mark 4:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:13And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Then Jesus said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:13And he saith to them: Are you ignorant of this parable? and how shall you know all parables?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:13And he saith unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how shall ye know all the parables?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:13And he says to them, Do ye not know this parable? and how will ye be acquainted with all the parables?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:13And he saith unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how shall ye know all the parables?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:13And he said to them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:13And he saith to them, 'Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:13And he said to them, Know you not this parable? and how then will you know all parables?