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The Purpose of the Parables(A)

10 When He was alone, those who were around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable. 11 He said to them, “To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, everything is said in parables, 12 so that

‘seeing they may see, and not perceive,
    and hearing they may hear and not understand;
lest they should turn, and their sins be forgiven them.’[a]

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