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The Reason for the Parables

10 And when he was alone, those around him together with the twelve began asking[fn] him about the parables. 11 And he said to them, “To you has been granted the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is in parables,

12 so that‘[fn] and not perceive,
- and[fn] and not understand,
lest they turn and it be forgiven them.’ ”[fn]

4:10 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began asking”)

4:12 Literally “seeing they may see”

4:12 Literally “hearing they may hear”

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