Prophecy and the Parables

34 (A)All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them,

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34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.(A)

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35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:

(A)“I will open My mouth in parables;
(B)I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

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35 So was fulfilled(A) what was spoken through the prophet:

“I will open my mouth in parables,
    I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:35 Psalm 78:2

12 “I still have many things to say to you, (A)but you cannot bear them now.

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12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.(A)

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