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This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

That is why I use these parables, For they look, but they don’t really see. They hear, but they don’t really listen or understand.

That is why I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see,   and hearing they do not listen or understand.

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

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

He replied, “You’ve been given insight into God’s kingdom. You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift, this insight; it hasn’t been given to them. Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely. But if there is no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears. That’s why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward a welcome awakening. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they’re blue in the face and not get it. I don’t want Isaiah’s forecast repeated all over again: Your ears are open but you don’t hear a thing. Your eyes are awake but you don’t see a thing. The people are stupid! They stick their fingers in their ears so they won’t have to listen; They screw their eyes shut so they won’t have to look, so they won’t have to deal with me face-to-face and let me heal them.

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

This is the reason I speak to the crowds in parables: because while [having the power of] seeing they do not see, and while [having the power of] hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand and grasp [spiritual things].

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.