用比喻的目的

10 门徒上前问耶稣:“你为什么要用比喻来教导他们呢?”

11 耶稣回答说:“天国的奥秘只让你们知道,不让他们知道。 12 因为凡有的,还要给他更多,他就丰富有余;凡没有的,连他仅有的也要夺去。 13 我用比喻教导他们是因为他们视而不见,听而不闻,闻而不悟。 14 以赛亚的预言正应验在他们身上,

“‘你们听了又听,却不明白;
看了又看,却不领悟。
15 因为这些人心灵麻木,
耳朵发背,眼睛昏花,
以致眼睛看不见,耳朵听不见,
心里不明白,无法回心转意,
得不到我的医治。’

16 “但你们的眼睛是有福的,因为看得见;你们的耳朵也是有福的,因为听得见。 17 我实在告诉你们,以前有许多先知和义人曾渴望看见你们所看见的,听见你们所听见的,却未能如愿。

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

11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven(A) has been given to you,(B) but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.(C) 13 This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;
    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.(D)

14 In them is fulfilled(E) the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
    they hardly hear with their ears,
    and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’[a](F)

16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.(G) 17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see(H) but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:15 Isaiah 6:9,10 (see Septuagint)