The Purpose of the Parables
10 And
1when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
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And he said to them,
2“To you has been given
3the secret of the kingdom of God, but for
4those outside everything is in parables,
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5so that“they
6may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they
7should turn and be forgiven. ”
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8And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
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And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.
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And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it
11with joy.
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And they have no root in themselves, but
12endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately
13they fall away.
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And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word,
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but
14the cares of
15the world and
16the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
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But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and
17bear fruit,
18thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold. ”