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Matthew 13:3 (NIV)

Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed.

Matthew 13:10 (NIV)

The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

Matthew 13:11 (NIV)

He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

Matthew 13:13 (NIV)

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

Mark 4:2 (NIV)

He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said:

Mark 4:11 (NIV)

He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables

Mark 4:12 (NIV)

so that, “ ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’ ”

Mark 4:33 (NIV)

With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand.

Luke 8:4 (NIV)

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable:

He said, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, “ ‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’