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Mark 4:13

King James Version (KJV)

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Mark 4:13

Verse 13 of 41

Scripture focus

And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

Mark 4:13 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Mark 4:13

Theological / Devotional

How then will ye know? The parable of the Sower, the Seed, and the Soils was the simplest of parables. Its meaning should have been clear to the disciples. If they experienced difficulty with this one, what would they do with the others?

Lusts. From the Gr. epithumia, “ardent desire,” “yearning,” or “longing.” The Greek of itself does not have the connotation of our word “lust.” It was “with desire [Gr. epithumia]” that Jesus desired to celebrate the last Passover with the Twelve (see Luke 22:15). Desire is wrong only when it is directed toward things that are evil. Here it is worldly interests such as the desire for riches that make the “desire” evil.

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