Mark 4:33 Cross References - Living_Oracles

³³ And in many such similitudes, he conveyed instruction to the people, as he found them disposed to hear:

³⁴ All these similitudes Jesus spoke to the people; for he taught them only by similitudes; ³⁵ in this verifying the word of the Prophet, "I will discourse in parables; I will utter things concerning which, all antiquity has been silent."

¹² I have many things still to tell you, but you can not yet bear them.

¹ Now, I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly men, even as to babes in Christ. ² Milk I gave you-not meat; for you were not then able to receive it: nay, neither yet now are you able, because you are still fleshly.

¹¹ (concerning whom we have much to say, and of difficult interpretation, since you have become dull of apprehension. ¹² For, when, by this time, you ought to be teachers, you have need of some one to teach you again the first elements of the oracles of God; and have become such as need milk, rather than solid food. ¹³ Now every one who uses milk, is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe: ¹⁴ but solid food is for those of a mature age, whose faculties have been habituated by long practice to discriminate both good and evil.