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10 His disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in figures?"
11 He answered, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but they are not.
12 For people who have will have more given to them, and will be plentifully supplied, and from people who have nothing even what they have will be taken away.
13 This is why I speak to them in figures, because though they look they do not see, and though they listen they do not hear or understand.
14 They are a fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy, " 'You will listen and listen, and never understand, And you will look and look, and never see!
15 For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!'