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He said to them, "Don`t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
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The Foundational Parable
Commentators unanimously agree that Jesus presents this parable as foundational and relatively simple. He expresses surprise that the disciples don't understand it, implying that grasping this 'pattern' parable, as one scholar calls it, is the essential first step to understanding all the more difficult ones that will follow.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Know ye not this parable? This parable, which is so plain and obvious.
How then will ye know all parables? Those which are…
Know ye not this parable? (ουκ οιδατε την παραβολην ταυτεν; ). They had asked Jesus his reasons for using parables. This question …
19th Century
Anglican
How then will ye know all parables? (Mark 4:13)—The question is peculiar to St. Mark, and suggests the though…
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Baptist
"For this is one of the simplest of them all; if you do not understand this parable, what will you understand?"
There is a slight rebuke in Jesus’ statement. He implies that the meaning of the parable of the sower is clear and understandable. If the disciples…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he says unto them, know you not this parable ? &c.] So easy to be understood, taken from things common, and whic…
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This parable contained instruction so important that all capable of hearing were obligated to pay attention to it. There are many things it is impo…
