Parallel Bible results for "matthew 13:13"

Matthew 13:13

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13 For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.
13 This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
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