Mark 4:33
Good News Translation
Jesus preached his message to the people, using many other parables like these; he told them as much as they could understand.

New Revised Standard Version
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it;

Contemporary English Version
Jesus used many other stories when he spoke to the people, and he taught them as much as they could understand.

New American Bible
With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear.

with.

Matthew 13:34,35 All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them. . . .

as.

John 16:12 I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.

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. . . .

Context
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
32And when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the birds of the air may dwell under the shadow thereof. 33And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear. 34And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:3
And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

Mark 4:32
And when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the birds of the air may dwell under the shadow thereof.

Mark 4:34
And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.

Mark 4:32
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