Mark 4:13
Good News Translation
Then Jesus asked them, "Don't you understand this parable? How, then, will you ever understand any parable?

New Revised Standard Version
And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?

Contemporary English Version
Jesus then told them: If you don't understand this story, you won't understand any others.

New American Bible
Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he saith to them: Are you ignorant of this, parable? and how shall you know all parables?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Know.

Mark 7:17,18 And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable. . . .

Matthew 13:51,52 Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes. . . .

Matthew 15:15-17 And Peter answering, said to him: Expound to us this parable. . . .

Matthew 16:8,9 And Jesus knowing it, said: Why do you think within yourselves, O ye of little faith, for that you have no bread? . . .

Luke 24:25 Then he said to them: O foolish and slow of heart to believe in all things, Which the prophets have spoken.

1 Corinthians 3:1,2 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ. . . .

Hebrews 5:11-14 Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear. . . .

Revelation 3:19 Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

Context
The Parable of the Sower Explained
12That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. 13And he saith to them: Are you ignorant of this, parable? and how shall you know all parables? 14He that soweth, soweth the word.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:3
And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

Matthew 13:18
Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.

Mark 4:14
He that soweth, soweth the word.

Luke 8:11
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Mark 4:12
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