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Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn`t speak to them,
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A Divine Filter
Commentators explain that Jesus used parables for a dual purpose. For those with open hearts, the stories revealed deep spiritual truths. For those who were resistant or 'self-blinded,' the same stories concealed the deeper meaning. This method acted as a divine filter, separating the receptive from the hardened.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Without a parable spake he not unto them—The words are, of course, limited by the context to this occasion, but it is not…
Baptist
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.…
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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…
16th Century
Protestant
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,<…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude In the hearing of his disciples, while in the ship, the multitude being on the shore,…
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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 …
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Lord showed the obstacles to the Gospel's teaching through two parables. However, because someone might say: ‘If the teaching is hi…
