Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
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Matthew 13:13
Therefore, I am speaking to them with parables because [although] they can see, they [really] do not perceive, and [although] they can hear, they [really] do not comprehend, and so they [utterly] fail to understand [what I am trying to get across].
Mark 4:33
And He spoke "the word" to them [i.e., the crowds] with as many such parables as they were able to receive.