Parables Fulfill Prophecy

34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable, 35 in order that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, who said,

“I will open my mouth in parables;
    I will proclaim what has been hidden since the creation.”[a][b]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:35 A quotation from Ps 78:2
  2. Matthew 13:35 Some manuscripts have “since the creation of the world”

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

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

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