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Mar_4:33 f. Comp. Mat_13:34.
From τοιαύταις it follows that Mark knew yet more parables that were spoken at that time.
καθὼς ἠδύναντο ἀκούειν ] As they were able (in virtue of their capacity) to take in the teaching. Not as though they could have apprehended the inner doctrinal contents of the parables (Mar_4:11), but they were capable of apprehending the narrative form, the parabolic narrative in itself, in which the teaching was veiled, so that they were thus qualified only in this form ( καθώς ) to hear the doctrine. Accordingly, ἀκούειν here is neither: to understand, nor equivalent to βαστάζειν , Joh_16:12 (Bengel, Kuinoel, and others), but the simple to hear, to perceive.
οὐκ ἐλάλει ] at that time. See on Mat_13:34. Baur indeed (see Markusevang. p. 24 f.) will not allow a limitation to the teaching at that time, but would draw the conclusion that Mark has perhaps not even regarded the Sermon on the Mount, such as Matthew has it, as being historical, and has given the foregoing parables as a substitute for it. But Mark himself certainly has doctrinal utterances of Jesus enough, which are not parabolical.