That it might be fulfilled. This is taken from Psalm 78:2-3. The sense, and the very words of the Psalm, are given. Christ taught…

Without a parable spake he not unto them—The words are, of course, limited by the context to this occasion, but it is not…

But when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.…

St. John Chrysostom: After the preceding parables, so that no one would think that Christ was introducing anything new, the Ev…

The first verb (“spoke”) refers to the specific situation of Jesus speaking parables at that time; the second verb (“did not say”) implies that thi…

All these things Jesus spoke in parables. Though Mark expressly says that Christ spoke the word to them as they were able to bear it,<…

All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude In the hearing of his disciples, while in the ship, the multitude being on the shore,…

The purpose of the parable of the seed sown is to show that the beginnings of the gospel would be small, but its eventual outcome would be a great …

Previously, the Lord showed the obstacles to the Gospel's teaching through two parables. However, because someone might say: ‘If the teaching is hi…