Matt.13.13

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

Matt.13.13

This is why I speak to them in parables: "Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

Matt.13.13

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

Matt.13.13

That is why I tell these stories, because people see what I do, but they don't really see. They hear what I say, but they don't really hear, and they don't understand.