Matthew 13:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

The Purpose of the Parables

¹⁰ Then the disciples came and asked him, ‘Why do you speak to them in parables?’ ¹¹ He answered, ‘To you it has been given to know the secrets^[a] of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. ¹² For to those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.