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  "pericope": "The Reason for Speaking in Parables",
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      "text": "The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”"
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      "v": 11,
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      "v": 11,
      "text": "“To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.",
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      "v": 12,
      "text": "For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.",
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      "v": 13,
      "text": "Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.",
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      "v": 14,
      "text": "In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says,",
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      "v": 14,
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      "v": 14,
      "text": "‘By hearing you will hear,",
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      "v": 14,
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      "v": 14,
      "text": "Seeing you will see,",
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      "v": 14,
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      "v": 14,
      "text": "and will in no way perceive;",
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      "v": 15,
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      "text": "for this people’s heart has grown callous,",
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      "text": "and they have closed their eyes;",
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      "v": 15,
      "text": "or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes,",
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      "text": "hear with their ears,",
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      "text": "“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.",
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.",
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      "v": 10,
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      "v": 10,
      "text": "And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?"
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      "v": 11,
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      "v": 11,
      "text": "He answered and said unto them,"
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      "v": 11,
      "text": "Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.",
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      "v": 12,
      "text": "For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.",
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      "text": "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.",
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      "text": "And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:",
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      "text": "For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.",
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      "text": "But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.",
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      "text": "For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.",
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