Mark 4:10-13 When He was by Himself, those who stayed about Him with the Twelve began to ask Him about the stories.

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁰ When He was by Himself, those who stayed about Him with the Twelve began to ask Him about the stories. ¹¹ Then He said to them, "To you the secret of the kingdom of God has been entrusted, but to those who are on the outside everything is presented in stories, so that ¹² 'They may look and look and yet not see, And listen and listen and yet not understand, Lest, perchance, they should turn and be forgiven.'" ¹³ Then He said to them: "If you do not understand this story, how, indeed, can you understand any of my stories?