Comments on: You Need People http://martysloan.com/2008/10/you-need-people/ Where the Bible intersects with application for life Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:38:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Bill Fingerhut http://martysloan.com/2008/10/you-need-people/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Bill Fingerhut Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:31:57 +0000 http://martysloan.com/?p=3#comment-2 Jesus drew the disciples in but they didn't understand right away what he was even talking about in the parables. Interesting, the masses didn't have a clue. "Declare unto us the parable..." (Mat. 13:36) "declare unto us this parable" (Mat. 15:15) "...the twelve asked of Him the parable" (Mk. 4:10) "Know ye not this parable" (Mk. 4:13) "...His disciples asked Him concerning the parable" (Mk. 7:17) "And His disciples asked Him saying, what might this parable be?" (Lk. 8:9) "Therefore speak I to them in parables; because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand" (Mat. 13:13) "Then answered Peter and said unto him, DECLARE UNTO US this parable. And Jesus said, ‘Are ye also [like the multitudes] yet without understanding?’" (Mat. 15:15-16) "And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?" (Mk. 4:13) Christ had to explain all the parables to them! Passage Mark 4:33-34: 33With many such parables [Jesus] spoke the Word to them, as they were able to hear and [a]to comprehend and understand. 34He did not tell them anything without a parable; but privately to His disciples ([b]those who were peculiarly His own) He explained everything [fully]. We have to help people out today to understand the true knowledge of God. Jesus drew the disciples in but they didn’t understand right away what he was even talking about in the parables. Interesting, the masses didn’t have a clue.
“Declare unto us the parable…” (Mat. 13:36)
“declare unto us this parable” (Mat. 15:15)
“…the twelve asked of Him the parable” (Mk. 4:10)
“Know ye not this parable” (Mk. 4:13)
“…His disciples asked Him concerning the parable” (Mk. 7:17)
“And His disciples asked Him saying, what might this parable be?” (Lk. 8:9)
“Therefore speak I to them in parables; because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand” (Mat. 13:13)
“Then answered Peter and said unto him, DECLARE UNTO US this parable. And Jesus said, ‘Are ye also [like the multitudes] yet without understanding?’” (Mat. 15:15-16)
“And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?” (Mk. 4:13)
Christ had to explain all the parables to them!
Passage Mark 4:33-34:
33With many such parables [Jesus] spoke the Word to them, as they were able to hear and [a]to comprehend and understand.
34He did not tell them anything without a parable; but privately to His disciples ([b]those who were peculiarly His own) He explained everything [fully].

We have to help people out today to understand the true knowledge of God.

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