Williams(i)
10 Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Why do you speak to them in stories?"
11 He answered: "It is you and not they who are granted the privilege of knowing the secrets of the kingdom of heaven.
12 For to anyone who has, more will be given, and his supply will overflow, but from anyone who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
13 This is why I am speaking to them in stories, because they look but do not see, they listen but do not really hear or understand.
14 So in them the prophecy of the prophet Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: "'You will listen and listen and not understand, and you will look and look and never see at all,
15 For this people's soul has grown dull, and with their ears they can scarcely hear, and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they will never see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn to me, so that I may cure them!'