Matthew 13:35
Good News Translation
He did this to make come true what the prophet had said, "I will use parables when I speak to them; I will tell them things unknown since the creation of the world."

New Revised Standard Version
This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth to speak in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Contemporary English Version
So God's promise came true, just as the prophet had said, "I will use stories to speak my message and to explain things hidden since the creation of the world."

New American Bible
to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation [of the world].”

Douay-Rheims Bible
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

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Matthew 13:14 And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith: By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive.

Matthew 21:4,5 Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: . . .

I will open.

Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

I will utter.

Psalm 49:4 I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

Isaiah 42:9 The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them.

Amos 3:7 For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Luke 10:14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

Romans 16:25,26 Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret from eternity; . . .

1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:

Ephesians 3:5,9 Which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit: . . .

Colossians 1:25,26 Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given me towards you, that I may fulfil the word of God: . . .

2 Timothy 1:9,10 Who hath delivered us and called us by his holy calling, not according to our own works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the world: . . .

Titus 1:2,3 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world: . . .

Hebrews 1:1 God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,

1 Peter 1:11,12 Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify, when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ and the glories that should follow. . . .

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Matthew 25:34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

John 17:24 Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

Acts 15:18 To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the world.

1 Peter 1:20,21 Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you: . . .

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.

Revelation 17:8 The beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall come up out of the bottomless pit and go into destruction. And the inhabitants on the earth (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) shall wonder, seeing the beast that was and is not.

Context
I will Open My Mouth in Parables
34All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them. 35That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world. 36Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the cockle of the field.…
Cross References
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

Matthew 5:2
And opening his mouth he taught them, saying:

Matthew 13:3
And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

Matthew 25:34
Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Romans 16:25
Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret from eternity;

Matthew 13:34
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