Parables sometimes need further teaching, as with the Parable of the Sower.
Matthew 13:10. Then when the disciples came they said to Him, “Why are You speaking to them in parables?” 11. And He said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Heavens, but it has not been given to those. 12. For who has, it will be given to him and he will have great abundance: but who does not have, even what he does have will be taken from him. 13. I am speaking to them in Parables because of this, because although they see, they do not see, and although they hear, they do not hear, and they do not understand, 14. and the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled to them, the one saying,
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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.
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