Matthew 13:13

Therefore I speak to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, nor understand.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

In Context

12For whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but whoever has not, even what he has shall be taken from him.

14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says: With the hearing ye will hear, and will not understand; And seeing ye will see, and will not perceive.

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Cross References

Mark 8:17And Jesus knowing it, says to them: Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? Do ye not yet perceive, nor understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened?

John 9:39And Jesus said: For judgment came I into this world; that they who see not may see, and that they who see may become blind.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 13:2-24

The Parable of the Sower; Why Christ Taught in Parables; Of the Sower and the Seed. 1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where… Read the whole commentary →

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