Bible verse
He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,
Mark 4:11 · BSB
The verses around it, from Mark 4.
7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.
8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprouted, grew up, and produced a crop—one bearing thirtyfold, another sixtyfold, and another a hundredfold.”
9 Then Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
10 As soon as Jesus was alone with the Twelve and those around Him, they asked Him about the parable.
11 He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,
12 so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”
13 Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
14 The farmer sows the word.
15 Some are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
KJV
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all [these] things are done in parables:
ASV
And he said unto them, Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables:
ERV
And he said unto them, Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables:
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