Luke 8:9-10

The Reason for the Parables

9 And his disciples asked him what this parable meant.
10 And he said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest [they are] in parables, so that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
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