Study Desk

And coming near, the disciples said to Him, Why do You speak to them in parables?

And answering, He said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven, but it has not been given to those.

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have overabundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

Because of this, I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

And the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled on them, which says, "In hearing you will hear and in no way understand, and seeing you will see yet in no way perceive.

For the heart of this people has grown fat, and they heard heavily with the ears, and they have closed their eyes, that they not see with the eyes, or hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and be converted, and I heal them."

But your eyes are blessed because they see; and your ears because they hear.

For truly I tell you that many prophets and righteous ones desired to see what you see and did not see, and to hear what you hear and did not hear.