- Bible
- Matthew
- Chapter 13
- Verse 34
Matthew 13:34
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
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Gill's Exposition
Then Jesus sent the multitude away,.... That his disciples might have the opportunity of conversing with him alone, about the sense of the parables he had delivered; and that he might instruct them by…
That it might be fulfilled - This is taken from Psa 78:2-3. The sense, and not the very words of the Psalm, are given. Christ taught, as did that prophet - Asaph - in parables. The words of Asaph…
In these verses, we have, I. Another reason given why Christ preached by parables, Mat 13:34, Mat 13:35. All these things he spoke in parables, because the time was not yet come for the more clear and…