Mark 4:12-14

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¹²‘They see clearly but don’t perceive.
    They hear clearly but don’t understand.
    They never return to me
    and are never forgiven.’”

¹³Yeshua asked them, “Don’t you understand this story? How, then, will you understand any of the stories I use as illustrations?

¹⁴“The farmer plants the word.

Mark 4:12-14

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¹²so that,

“‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’^[a]”^(A)

¹³Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? ¹⁴The farmer sows the word.^(B)

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