11 And he said to them, “To you has been granted the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is in parables, 12 so that

they may look closely[a] and not perceive,
    and they may listen carefully[b] and not understand,
lest they turn and it be forgiven them.’”[c]

The Parable of the Sower Interpreted

13 And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables?

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 4:12 Literally “seeing they may see”
  2. Mark 4:12 Literally “hearing they may hear”
  3. Mark 4:12 A quotation from Isa 6:9–10