Mark 4:13

And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

"Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

"Have you understood all these things?" They answered him, "Yes, Lord."

Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."

But Jesus, becoming aware of this, said, "You of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves about having no bread?

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Then he said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken.

And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become 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?

Evil men do not understand justice; but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.

He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,