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Mark 4:11-13
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Mark 4:11-13
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
11 And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables; 12 so that[a] they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.” 13 And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
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- 4.12 so that . . . : One might rephrase this: “so that the scripture might be fulfiled”; cf. Jn 18.32; 19.24, 28. It was not God’s intention to prevent their understanding. Matthew avoids this difficulty by writing, “I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see” (Mt 13.13).
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