Mark 4:34 Cross References - Moffatt

³⁴ he never spoke to them except by way of parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.

³⁶ Then he left the crowds and went indoors. And his disciples came up to him saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field." ³⁷ So he replied, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man; ³⁸ the field is the world; the good seed means the sons of the Realm; the weeds are the sons of the evil one; ³⁹ the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ Well then, just as the weeds are gathered and burnt in the fire, so will it be at the end of the world; ⁴¹ the Son of man will despatch his angels, and they will gather out of his Realm all who are hindrances and who practise iniquity, ⁴² and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will wail and gnash their teeth. ⁴³ Then the just will shine like the sun in the Realm of their Father. He who has an ear, let him listen to this.

¹⁵ Peter answered, "Explain this parable to us at anyrate." ¹⁶ He said, "And are you totally ignorant? ¹⁷ Do you not see how all that enters the mouth passes into the belly and is then thrown out into the drain, ¹⁸ while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart — and that is what defiles a man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander. ²⁰ That is what defiles a man; a man is not defiled by eating with hands unwashed!"

¹⁰ When he was by himself his adherents and the twelve asked him about the parable,

¹⁷ Now when he went indoors away from the crowd, his disciples asked him the meaning of this parabolic saying. ¹⁸ He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him? ¹⁹ It does not enter his heart but his belly and passes from that into the drain" (thus he pronounced all food clean). ²⁰ "No," he said, "it is what comes from a man, that is what defiles him. ²¹ From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder, ²² adultery, lust, malice, deceit, sensuality, envying, slander, arrogance, recklessness, ²³ all these evils issue from within and they defile a man."

⁹ The disciples questioned him about the meaning of the parable; ¹⁰ so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

²⁷ Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled." ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. ⁴⁶ "Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

²⁵ I have told you this in figures, but the time is coming when I shall speak to you in figures no longer; I shall let you know plainly about the Father.