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Mark 4:10-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Mark 4:10-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Purpose of the Parables
10 When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret[a] of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything comes in parables,(A) 12 in order that
‘they may indeed look but not perceive,
and may indeed hear but not understand;
so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.’ ”(B)
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Mark 4:34
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Mark 4:34
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34 he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.(A)
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