Both A.V. "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". This verse is not found in any of the other evangelists. See notes on Matthew 13:19-23. How will you understand all the parables? Angels often have roles administering Godâs judgment as shown also (in chapters of Genesis 18, Isaiah 37 and Rev. Charles Schribner's Sons. Mark 4:13. - The scope and design of which is so very obvious. Daniel 4:13 "I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven;" This watcher was an angel, a servant of God, who controlled a nationâs rise or fall. and how shall ye know all the parables? 1909-1922. Mark: Mark's Good News - by Hilda Bright. 4:13 "'Do you not understand this parable? [Note: Cranfield, p97.]. Know ye not this parable?] Used by permission of Broadman Press (Southern Baptist Sunday School Board). The significance of this parable is stated in Mk 4:13. Mark 4:9. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/mark-4.html. BibliographyTorrey, R. A. 13 And He *said to them, âDo you not understand this parable? New American Standard Bible (NASB). God Himself sees everything, including our deepest thoughts and motives (4:13). https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/pet/mark-4.html. And He said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? "The blindness of men is so universal that even the disciples are not exempt from it." "Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges". So easy to be understood, taken from things common, and which fall under every one's observation: and how then will you know all parables? Notice that even with this âsimpleâ parable, the disciples themselves do not understand (Mark 4:10, 4:13, 4:33, 4:34). "Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament". ii. How nmch less can any one understand gospel mysteries, but by a supernatural light! If so, then the temptations as recorded here are only summaries, and also explain why the accounts in Mark 1 and Matthew 4 differ in their details and order of events (cf. Wrong interpretations are those which do not tend to conversion and forgiveness (Mark 4:12). In Mark 4:3. we read: "Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow." Mark 4:13-20 New American Standard Bible (NASB) Explanation. "Commentary on Mark 4:13". and how then will ye know all parables? And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. How will you understand all the parables? "Family Bible New Testament". Adam and Eve tried to hide from God after they sinned, but they could not do it, and neither can we. 13. καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς. ignores the τάς: How then shall ye come to know all My parables? The sum of Old Testament revelation comes to meet with Jesus at the Mount of Transfiguration. Copyright © Broadman Press 1932,33, Renewal 1960. * [4:26â29] Only Mark records the parable of the seedâs growth. Winer, p. 545. 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: Mark chapter 4 KJV (King James Version) 1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.. 2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,. The author moves from Godâs penetrating Word to God Himself, who sees everything. New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. and how then will ye know all parables? 1871-8. This is a very good question. Jesus believed that the disciples should have understood the parable of the soils. "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". The rapture is the coming day when Jesus will call all believers, living and dead, and meet them in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:13â18; 1 Corinthians 15:50â54). The question implies a rebuke to the disciples as well as surprise on the part of Christ. Some think Mark 13:32 refers to the rapture. The question implies that the Sower is a leading and testing parable, prima et fundamentalis (Beng.). 2013. Barclay 1975:43; Bock 1994:370). https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/dcc/mark-4.html. And he said to them, âDo you not understand this parable? 13. Complete Concise Chapter Contents. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit--This case is that of ground not thoroughly cleaned of the thistles, &c.; which, rising above the good seed, "choke" or "smother" it, excluding light and air, and drawing away the moisture and richness of the soil. Luke 1:1 to 4:13 - The Birth of Jesus and the Beginning of his Work; Luke 4:14 to 9:50 - ⦠but rather implying that to understand the Sower was to understand all the parables spoken that day ( πάσας τὰς παρ.). = Have ye no intuitive knowledge of. How then will you understand any parable? 14 The farmer sows the word. Mark 4:12. ignore the change from οἴδατε to γνώσεσθε, and A.V. BibliographyPoole, Matthew, "Commentary on Mark 4:13". After presenting this parable to the multitude, Jesus interprets it for His disciples in Matthew 13:18-23; Mark 4:13-20; and Luke 8:11-15. The Parable of the Sower Explained (Matt. and how then will ye know all parables? 1865-1868. "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible". 34 He did not speak to them k without a parable, but l privately to his own disciples he m explained everything. 16 In a similar way these are ⦠* [4:13â20] See note on Mt 13:18â23. . "Commentary on Mark 4:13". To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, And he saith unto them, know ye not this parable, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. âDo you not understand this parable? 2. The view that parables were a common method of instruction among the Jews does not seem to be well founded. The Parable of the Sower is recorded in three of the four biblical Gospels â Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-20, and Luke 8:1-15. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cgt/mark-4.html. 14 The sower sows the word. Know ye not . The sower sows the word. All Rightes Reserved, Larry Pierce, Winterbourne, Ontario.A printed copy of this work can be ordered from: The Baptist Standard Bearer, 1 Iron Oaks Dr, Paris, AR, 72855. And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? That seeing, they may see, and not perceive. - Of which mode of teaching ye should be perfect masters, in order that ye may be able successfully to teach others. It is impossible to hide from God! 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. [â See verse text â] "Joined together" is from the Greek root word syzeugnymi which literally means to harness two people to the same yoke. does not like either and substitutes “Hear then ye the parable of the Sower.” See Mt.’s treatment of Mark 9:10; Mark 9:32; Mark 9:34; Mark 14:40. FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT (YEAR B) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, MARK 13:33-37 (Isaiah 63:16b-17,19b, 64:2-7; Psalm 80; 1 Corinthians 1:3-9)KEY VERSE: "Watch, therefore; you do not know when the lord of the house is coming" (v 35). THE CONTEXT Jesus' baptism (3:13-17) and temptation (4:1-11) immediately precede this lesson, so this is the beginning of Jesus' ministry. If they had the explanation of this, they had the key for the understanding of all others.’ Hence our Lord gives, not rules of interpretation, but examples, one of which is here preserved, to be our guide in interpretation. Mark 4:13-20. An outcome of this production was the New Testament for English Readers (4 vols. (ουκ οιδατε την παραβολην ταυτεν ouk oidate tēn parabolēn tauteṉ). 1897. Mark 4:13-20. What does Mark 10:9 mean? — Probably this was said not so much in the spirit of rebuke, as to call their attention to the exposition of it which He was about to give, and so train them to the right apprehension of His future parables. ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. (1-20) Other parables. How then will you understand any parable? BibliographyRobertson, A.T. "Commentary on Mark 4:13". c. To those who are outside, all things come in parables, so that âSeeing they may see and not perceiveâ : Parables, in their spiritual function, are more like riddles or puzzles than easy illustrations. Melancthon was heard to say, that he did not believe that there was any one man to be found in all Germany that could rightly understand one whole page in Aristotle’s Organon. American Tract Society. 15 These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. This verse is peculiar to Mk. "Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible ". What a shame is that! App-132. But if they were such slow scholars in this early stage, how was that insight to be imparted? The Expositor's Greek Testament. "Commentary on Mark 4:13". All rights reserved. The summons implies ⦠οá½Îº οἴδαÏε, do ye not know) Jesus marks with reproof the question of the disciples.â καὶ ÏῶÏ, and how then) The parable concerning the seed is the primary and foudamental one [the foundation of all the others].â ÏάÏαÏ, all) constituting and comprising the perfect doctrine of Christ. It is no accident that Matthew places the Mark 12:1-9, for example, is clearly intended as an allegory. âAll parablesâ: Understanding the parable of the sower was to be key in the discipleâs ability to discern the meaning of Jesusâ other parables of the kingdom (verses 21-34). It was not so obvious to the first hearers. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/mark-4.html. BibliographyVincent, Marvin R. DD. (13) How then will ye know all parables?âThe question is peculiar to St. Mark, and suggests the thought of our Lord as contemplating for His disciples an ever-growing insight, not only into His own spoken parables, but into those of nature and of life. If they cannot understand this one which is so clear, how will they get on with the more problematic ones? But the descriptions in the parable had been commonplace ones and without that first clue the parable is not as clear as it would be once the clue was given. ‘And he says to them, “Do you not know this parable? 20 And those are the ones sown with seed on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and (E)bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.â. Mark 1:13; cf. How will you understand all the parables? which is so plain and obvious. καὶ τίς; Mark 10:26; Luke 10:29; Luke 18:26; John 9:36; 2 Corinthians 2:2. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". PARABLE OF THE SOWER EXPLAINED - Mark 4:13-20 13 And He (Jesus) said to them, âDo you not understand this parable? It is one of the three which all three record, the others being the Mustard-seed and The Wicked Husbandmen. Know ye not this parable! a. Copyright StatementJames Burton Coffman Commentaries reproduced by permission of Abilene Christian University Press, Abilene, Texas, USA. "Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable". 14 The sower sows the word. "Coffman Commentaries on the Old and New Testament". The first lesson in interpreting is given in that which is a pattern and exemplar of the method of interpretation. BibliographyNicol, W. Robertson, M.A., L.L.D. This parable contained instruction so important, that all capable of hearing were bound to attend to it. Go to. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/fam/mark-4.html. This SpiritualRay article throws light on the meaning of this parable and emphasizes on the need to understand it to the core. Cf. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/rwp/mark-4.html. "Commentary on Mark 4:13". Anaxagoras the philosopher found himself benighted, and complained, omnia esse circumfusa tenebris, that there was a general darkness upon men’s understandings. μάδι 4 - 'Greek: Modern' translation alongside Explanation of Mark 4 and Nothing But Parables ä¸æ ÄeÅ¡tina Nederlands français á¥áá áá£áá ááá Deutsch italiano æ¥æ¬èª íêµì´ português Pyccĸий Srpski, СÑпÑки Español svenska Tagalog ", Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, "Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow.