Mark 4:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Purpose of the Parables

¹⁰When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables. ¹¹And he said to them, ‘To you has been given the secret^[a] of the kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in parables; ¹²in order that

“they may indeed look, but not perceive,
and may indeed listen, but not understand;
so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.”’

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Mark 4:11 Or mystery

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)

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