Contradiction with Proverbs 1:5
Encourages seeking knowledge and understanding, unlike Mark 4:13 which implies a lack of understanding.
Proverbs 1:5: A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Contradiction with James 1:5
Promises wisdom to those who ask, whereas Mark 4:13 indicates a lack of comprehension of parables.
James 1:5: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Contradiction with Hebrews 5:12
Suggests that understanding should grow over time, contrasting with the idea of not understanding presented in Mark 4:13.
Hebrews 5:12: For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 2:14
States that spiritual truths are discerned spiritually, differing from the implication in Mark 4:13 that the disciples don't understand parables.
1 Corinthians 2:14: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.