Matthew 13:34

Easy-to-Read Version

Jesus used stories to tell all these things to the people. He always used stories to teach them.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and he did not tell them anything without a parable,

King James Version (1611)
All these things spake Iesus vnto the multitude in parables, and without a parable spake hee not vnto them:

King James Version
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

English Standard Version
All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable.

New American Standard Bible
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak anything to them without a parable.

New Century Version
Jesus used stories to tell all these things to the people; he always used stories to teach them.

Amplified Bible
All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables, and He said nothing to them without [using] a parable.

Geneva Bible (1587)
All these thinges spake Iesus vnto the multitude in parables, and without parables spake he not to them,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable.

Legacy Standard Bible
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He was not speaking to them without a parable

Berean Standard Bible
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus used stories when he spoke to the people. In fact, he did not tell them anything without using stories.

Complete Jewish Bible
All these things Yeshua said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without using a parable.

Darby Translation
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,

George Lamsa Translation
Jesus spoke all these things to the people in parables; and without parables he did not speak to them.

Good News Translation
Jesus used parables to tell all these things to the crowds; he would not say a thing to them without using a parable.

Lexham English Bible
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable,

Literal Translation
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds, and He did not speak to them without a parable,

American Standard Version
All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:

Bible in Basic English
All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

International Standard Version
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables. He did not tell them anything without usingusing">[fn] a parable.Mark 4:33-34;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
All these spake Jeshu in parables to the multitude; and without a parable he did not speak with them.

Murdock Translation
All these things Jesus discoursed to the multitude in similitudes; and without similitudes he did not discourse with them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
All these thynges spake Iesus vnto the people in parables: and without a parable spake he not vnto them.

English Revised Version
All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:

World English Bible
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
All these things spake Jesus to the multitude in parables, and without a parable spake he not unto them:

Weymouth's New Testament
All this Jesus spoke to the people in figurative language, and except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Jhesus spac alle thes thingis in parablis to the puple, and he spac not to hem with out parablis, that it schulde be fulfillid,

Update Bible Version
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable he spoke nothing to them:

Webster's Bible Translation
All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable he spoke not to them:

New English Translation
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.

New King James Version
All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them,

New Living Translation
Jesus always used stories and illustrations like these when speaking to the crowds. In fact, he never spoke to them without using such parables.

New Life Bible
Jesus told all these things using picture-stories to the many people. He did not speak to them without using picture-stories.

New Revised Standard
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All these things, spake Jesus in parables, unto the multitudes, and, without a parable, was he speaking, nothing, unto them:

Douay-Rheims Bible
All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.

Revised Standard Version
All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
All these thynge spake Iesus vnto the people by similitudes and with oute similitudes spake he nothinge to them

Young's Literal Translation
All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All soch thinges spake Iesus vnto ye people by parables, & without parables spake he nothinge vnto the:

Mace New Testament (1729)
All these things spake Jesus to the multitude in parables, and did not discourse to them without some parable.

THE MESSAGE
All Jesus did that day was tell stories—a long storytelling afternoon. His storytelling fulfilled the prophecy: I will open my mouth and tell stories; I will bring out into the open things hidden since the world's first day.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus constantly used stories like these when he talked to the cowboys and cowgirls. Truth be known, he never spoke to them in any other way.

Contextual Overview

²⁴ Then Jesus used another story to teach them. Jesus said, "God's kingdom is like a man who planted good seed in his field. ²⁵ That night, while everyone was asleep, the man's enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat and then left. ²⁶ Later, the wheat grew, and heads of grain grew on the plants. But at the same time the weeds also grew. ²⁷ Then the man's servants came to him and said, ‘You planted good seed in your field. Where did the weeds come from?' ²⁸ "The man answered, ‘An enemy planted weeds.' "The servants asked, ‘Do you want us to go and pull up the weeds?' ²⁹ "He answered, ‘No, because when you pull up the weeds, you might also pull up the wheat. ³⁰ Let the weeds and the wheat grow together until the harvest time. At the harvest time I will tell the workers this: First, gather the weeds and tie them together to be burned. Then gather the wheat and bring it to my barn.'" ³¹ Then Jesus told the people another story: "God's kingdom is like a mustard seed that a man plants in his field. ³² It is the smallest of all seeds. But when it grows, it is the largest of all garden plants. It becomes a tree big enough for the birds to come and make nests in its branches." ³³ Then Jesus told them another story: "God's kingdom is like yeast that a woman mixes into a big bowl of flour to make bread. The yeast makes all the dough rise."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 13:13, Mark 4:33, Mark 4:34

Reciprocal: Judges 14:12 - a riddle Psalms 78:2 - I will Proverbs 1:6 - dark Matthew 10:27 - I tell Matthew 13:3 - in Mark 3:23 - in parables Mark 4:2 - by parables Mark 12:1 - he began Luke 14:7 - put John 16:25 - proverbs

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude,.... In the hearing of his disciples, whilst in the ship, the multitude being on the shore,

in parables; in the four foregoing ones;

and without a parable spake he not unto them: not that he never had preached but in a parabolical way unto them, or that he never did afterwards use any other way of speaking; for it is certain, that both before and after, he delivered himself plainly, and without figures: but the meaning is, that in that sermon, and at that time, he thought fit to make use of no other method, as appears from the many other parables he afterwards delivered; and though he explained the meaning of some of them to his disciples, at their request, yet he dismissed the multitude without any explication of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That it might be fulfilled - This is taken from Psalms 78:2-3. The sense, and not the very words of the Psalm, are given. Christ taught, as did that prophet - Asaph - in parables. The words of Asaph described the manner in which Christ taught, and in this sense it could be said that they were fulfilled. See the notes at Matthew 1:22-23.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 34. All these things spoke Jesus - in parables — Christ descends from Divine mysteries to parables, in order to excite us to raise our minds, from and through natural things, to the great God, and the operations of his grace and Spirit. Divine things cannot be taught to man but through the medium of earthly things. If God should speak to us in that language which is peculiar to heaven, clothing those ideas which angelic minds form, how little should we comprehend of the things thus described! How great is our privilege in being thus taught! Heavenly things, in the parables of Christ, assume to themselves a body, and thus render themselves palpable.