Matthew 13:13

For this cause I discourse to them in similitudes, because they see and do not see, and they hear and do not hear, nor understand.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 to him that hath, shall be given; and he shall abound: but from him that hath not, even what he hath shall be taken from him.

14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, who said: By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and by seeing ye see, and shall not know:

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Cross References

Mark 8:17And Jesus knew it, and said to them: Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? Do ye still not know, nor understand? How long will your heart be hard?

John 9:39And Jesus said: For the judgment of this world, have I come; that they who see not, might see; and that they who see, might 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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