Matthew 13:13 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ This is the reason that I speak to them in parables: because having the power of seeing, they do not see; and having the power of hearing, they do not hear, nor do they grasp and understand.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Common English Bible

¹³ This is why I speak to the crowds in parables: although they see, they don’t really see; and although they hear, they don’t really hear or understand.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ For this reason, I speak to them in parables: because seeing, they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Matthew 13:13 Cross References

Matthew 13:16

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

Romans 11:8

Just as it is written: "God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, down to this very day."