Matthew 13:10-17

The Voice

Disciples: ¹⁰Why do You speak to the people in parables?

Jesus: ¹¹The knowledge of the secrets of heaven has been given to you, but it has not been given to them. ¹²Those who have something will be given more—and they will have abundance. Those who have nothing will lose what they have—they will be destitute. ¹³I teach in parables so the people may look but not see, listen but not hear or understand.^[a] ¹⁴They are fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy:

You will listen, but you will not understand;
    you will look, but you will not see.
¹⁵The people’s hearts have turned to flab;
    their ears are clogged;
    their eyes are shut.
They will try to see, but they will not see;
    they will try to hear, but they will not hear;
    they will try to understand, but they will not comprehend.
If they, with their blindness and deafness, so choose, then I will heal them.^[b]

^16-17Many holy prophets and righteous men and women and people of prayer and doers of good have wanted to see but did not see, and have wanted to hear but did not hear. Your eyes and ears are blessed.

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