10And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
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And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? …
But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)The foregoing chapter began with Christ’s entering into the synagogue (Mark 4:1); this chapter begins with Christ’s teaching again by the sea side . Thus he changed his method, that if possible all might be reached and wrought upon. To gratify the nice and more genteel sort of people that had seats, chief seats, in the synagogue , and did not care for hearing a sermon any where else, he did not pr…
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