Luke 8:9-10

Why Jesus Used Parables

9 Then His disciples asked Him, "What does this parable mean?"
10 So He said, "The secrets[a] of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that Looking they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. [b]"

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. The Gk word mysteria
  • [b]. Isaiah 6:9
  • [c]. "The secrets" does not mean "mysteries" in the Eng sense; it means what we can know only by divine revelation.
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