Isaiah 28:9-12
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9 (A)“To whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
those taken from the breast?
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”
11 (B)For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the Lord will speak to this people,
12 to whom he has said,
(C)“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
Psalm 78:1-4
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Tell the Coming Generation
A Maskil[a] of (A)Asaph.
78 (B)Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
2 (C)I will open my mouth (D)in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3 things that we have heard and known,
that our (E)fathers have told us.
4 We will not (F)hide them from their children,
but (G)tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
and (H)the wonders that he has done.
Footnotes
- Psalm 78:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Matthew 13:3
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3 And (A)he told them many things in parables, saying: (B)“A sower went out to sow.
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Matthew 13:10-13
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The Purpose of the Parables
10 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” 11 And he answered them, (A)“To you it has been given to know (B)the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12 (C)For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, (D)even what he has will be taken away. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because (E)seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, (F)nor do they understand.
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Matthew 13:34-35
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Prophecy and Parables
34 (A)All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable. 35 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet:[a]
(B)“I will open my mouth in parables;
(C)I will utter what has been hidden (D)since the foundation of the world.”
Footnotes
- Matthew 13:35 Some manuscripts Isaiah the prophet
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