Mark 4:13

"You do not understand this parable," said Jesus. "Then how will you understand the other parables?

All whom I love I reprove and discipline; therefore be full of zeal and repent.

"Listen then, to the parable of the sower.

"Have you understood all this?" he asked. "We have," they answered him.

Then Peter said to Jesus, "Explain the parable to us."

When Jesus knew it he said: "Weaklings in faith! Why are you arguing among yourselves, because you have no bread?

After he had left the crowd and gone indoors his disciples began asking him about the parable.

"This is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God.

"O foolish men," said Jesus, "slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

Concerning him I have much to say, and much that is hard to make clear to you, because you have grown dull of hearing.

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And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

"Are even you without understanding?" he said. "Do you not perceive that nothing whatever from without can defile a man by entering him,