Matthew 13:35

Jesus' parabolic teaching fulfilled the prophecy of opening His mouth in parables to utter hidden things. His ministry unveiled truths kept secret since creation.

Cross-references · 22

• Ps 78:2I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
• Eph 3:9and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;
• Rom 16:25–26—
• 1 Pet 1:20–21who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
• 1 Cor 2:7But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
• John 17:24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
• Amos 3:7Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
• Col 1:25–26of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,
• Matt 25:34Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
• Eph 3:5which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
• Isa 42:9Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
• Rev 13:8All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
• 2 Tim 1:9–10who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• Titus 1:2–3in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
• Matt 13:14In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:
• Ps 49:4I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
• 1 Pet 1:11–12searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
• Rev 17:8The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.
• Matt 21:4–5All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
• Luke 10:14But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.
• Acts 15:18All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.’
• Heb 1:1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

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