Mark 4:33 Cross References - Goodspeed

³³ With many such figures he told them the message, as far as they were able to receive it.

³⁴ Jesus said all this to the crowds in figures, and told them nothing except in figures, ³⁵ to fulfil what was said by the prophet, "I will open my mouth in figures, I will utter things that have been hidden since the creation."

¹² I have much more to tell you, but you cannot take it in now,

¹ So, for my part, brothers, I could not treat you as spiritual persons; I had to treat you just as creatures of flesh and blood, as babies in Christian living. ² I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. Why, you are not ready for it now,

¹¹ I have much to say to you about this, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, because you have become so slow of apprehension. ¹² For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food. ¹³ For anyone who is limited to milk is unacquainted with Christian teaching, for he is only an infant. ¹⁴ But full-grown men have a right to solid food, for their faculties are trained by practice to distinguish right and wrong.