Matthew 13:13

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¹³This is why I use stories to teach the people: They see, but they don’t really see. They hear, but they don’t really 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.

This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;

though hearing, they do not hear 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.

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.

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand,

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

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