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OET (OET-LV) Because_of this I_am_speaking in parables to_them, because seeing they_are_ not _seeing, and hearing they_are_ not _hearing, nor are_they_understanding.
OET (OET-RV) That’s why I speak to them in parables, because when they look they don’t see, and when they listen, they don’t hear or understand,
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
διὰ τοῦτο
because_of this
Here, the pronoun this could refer to: (1) what Jesus is about to say, beginning with the word because. Alternate translation: [Here is why] (2) what Jesus said in the previous two verses. Alternate translation: [That is why] or [For those reasons]
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
αὐτοῖς
˱to˲_them
The pronoun them refers to the “crowd” that was standing on the shore of the sea to listen to Jesus (see 13:2). Express the idea as you did in 13:10. Alternate translation: [to the crowd]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
βλέποντες οὐ βλέπουσιν, καὶ ἀκούοντες οὐκ ἀκούουσιν, οὐδὲ συνίουσιν
seeing not ˱they˲_/are/_seeing and hearing not ˱they˲_/are/_hearing nor ˱they˲_/are/_understanding
Here Jesus means that the people see things, but they do not look carefully. They hear things, but they do not listen carefully or understand. You could include this information if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [although they see, they do not really see; and although they hear, they do not really hear nor understand] or [seeming to see, they do not actually see, and seeming to hear, they do not actually hear nor understand]
13:13 Jesus told parables, and those who believed understood while those who had rejected Jesus found that his parables intensified their unbelief.
• they don’t really see . . . listen or understand: They lacked the faith that perceives the truth (13:19, 23) and acts upon it (Mark 8:18; John 12:40; see also Jer 5:21).
OET (OET-LV) Because_of this I_am_speaking in parables to_them, because seeing they_are_ not _seeing, and hearing they_are_ not _hearing, nor are_they_understanding.
OET (OET-RV) That’s why I speak to them in parables, because when they look they don’t see, and when they listen, they don’t hear or understand,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.