Mark 4:33 Cross References
Mark 4:33
33: He used many such stories and illustrations to teach the people as much as they were able to understand.
Matthew 13:34
- Jesus always used stories and illustrations like these when speaking to the crowds. In fact, he never spoke to them without using such parables.
- This fulfilled the prophecy that said, "I will speak to you in parables. I will explain mysteries hidden since the creation of the world."
John 16:12
- "Oh, there is so much more I want to tell you, but you can't bear it now.
1 Corinthians 3:1
- Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn't talk to you as I would to mature Christians. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in the Christian life.
- I had to feed you with milk and not with solid food, because you couldn't handle anything stronger. And you still aren't ready,
Hebrews 5:11
- There is so much more we would like to say about this. But you don't seem to listen, so it's hard to make you understand.
- You have been Christians a long time now, and you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things a beginner must learn about the Scriptures. You are like babies who drink only milk and cannot eat solid food.
- And a person who is living on milk isn't very far along in the Christian life and doesn't know much about doing what is right.
- Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves to recognize the difference between right and wrong and then do what is right.