Mark 4:33 Cross References - Worsley

³³ And in many such parables spake He the word to them, as they had ability to hear it: but spake not to them without a parable.

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus in parables to the multitudes; and at this time He spake nothing to them without a parable: ³⁵ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, I will publish things which have been concealed from the foundation of the world.

¹² I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.

¹ And I, my brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual persons, but as to carnal ones, even as to babes in Christ. ² I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for ye were not hitherto able to bear it, nor yet are ye even now able.

¹¹ Concerning whom we have much to say and difficult to be explained, since ye are become dull of hearing. ¹² For whereas ye ought for the time to be teachers of others, ye have need again of some one to teach you the first rudiments of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk and not of solid food. ¹³ For every one that wanteth milk, is unacquainted with the doctrine of justification; for he is an infant: ¹⁴ but firm food is for persons come to age, who by habit have their senses exercised to a discernment both of good and evil.