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NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Mar_4:33-34
33With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it; 34and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.
Mar_4:33 "With many such parables He was speaking the word to them" We only have recorded a small part of Jesus' oral ministry (cf. Joh_21:25). All of us wish we had more of Jesus' teachings and actions (cf. Joh_20:30), but we need to realize that we have everything we need to know about God, sin, life, death, etc (cf. Joh_20:31). We must act on what we have been given. These two verses are parallel to Mat_13:33-35.
▣ "so far as they were able to hear it" This refers to their spiritual receptivity (cf. Mar_4:9; Mar_4:23). Believers today have the benefit of the indwelling Holy Spirit to help us understand Jesus' words.
Mar_4:34 This reflects the previous statements of Mar_4:10-13.