Matthew 13:34
Good News Translation
Jesus used parables to tell all these things to the crowds; he would not say a thing to them without using a parable.

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus used stories when he spoke to the people. In fact, he did not tell them anything without using stories.

New American Bible
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables,

Douay-Rheims Bible
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.

Matthew 13:13 Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Mark 4:33,34 And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear. . . .

Context
I will Open My Mouth in Parables
33Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened. 34All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them. 35That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:3
And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

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

John 10:6
This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke.

John 16:25
These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

John 16:29
His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and speakest no proverb.

Matthew 13:33
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