Mark Chapter 4 verse 33 Holy Bible
And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it;
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And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it:
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And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear,
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And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
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With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
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And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 33, 34. - With many such parables; such, that is, as he had just been delivering - plain and simple illustrations which all might understand; not abstruse and difficult similitudes, but sufficiently plain for them to perceive that there was heavenly and Divine truth lying hidden beneath them, so that they might be drawn onwards through that which they did understand, to search into something hidden beneath it, which at present they did not know. But privately to his own disciples he expounded (ἐπέλυε) all things. This word (ἐπιλύω) occurs nowhere else in the Gospels. But it does occur in St. Peter's second Epistle (2 Peter 1:20), "No Scripture is of any private (ἐπιλύσεως) exposition, or interpretation." This suggests a connection between St. Mark's Gospel and that Epistle, and may be accepted as an auxiliary evidence, however small, as to the genuineness of the Epistle.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(33-34) And with many such parables.--See Notes on Matthew 13:34-35. St. Mark's omission of the reference to Psalm 78:2, and his addition of "as they were able to hear it," are, each of them, characteristic. It may be noted that the "many such parables" of St. Mark imply something like the series which we find in St. Matthew.
