34All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
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And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it. …
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-43)In these verses, we have, I. Another reason given why Christ preached by parables, Matt. 13:34 , 35 . All these things he spoke in parables , because the time was not yet come for the more clear and plain discoveries of the mysteries of the kingdom. Christ, to keep the people attending and expecting, preached in parables, and without a parable spake he not unto them ; namely, at this time and in t…
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