He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Mark 4:11 in context
Mark 4:8–14
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Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
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He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
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He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
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that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”
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He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
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The farmer sows the word.
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