This text may be used as supplying three lessons as to the duties of the Christian teacher.
I. He must adapt himself to his hearers.
II. He must consider his hearers rather than himself.
III. He must increase his communication of truth and light according to the progress of his scholars.
Parker, City Temple,1871, p. 82.
References: Mark 4:33-34. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. xxviii., No. 1669. Mark 4:34. J. Vaughan, Fifty Sermons,6th series, p. 191.Mark 4:34-41. Homilist,vol. iv., p. 177.