The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Matthew 13:10 in context
Matthew 13:7–13
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Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
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Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
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He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
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For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
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Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
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