Matthew 13:10–18

¹⁰The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”↗

¹¹He answered them,“To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.↗

¹²For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.↗

¹³Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.↗

¹⁴In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;↗

¹⁵for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’↗

¹⁶“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.↗

¹⁷For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.↗

¹⁸“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.↗