Matthew 13:11-13

Goodspeed(i) 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.