Matthew 13:10

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Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

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And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.

He who has ears, let him hear.”

And when he was alone, those who were about him with the twelve asked him concerning the parables.

And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant,