Mat 13:13, Mar 4:33-34 | ESV | STEP | This is why I speak to them in parables , because seeing they do not see , and hearing they do not hear , nor do they understand .

Matthew 13:13

13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because ^aseeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, ^bnor do they understand.

Mark 4:33-34

33 ^cWith many such parables he spoke ^dthe word to them, ^eas they were able to hear it. 34 He did not speak to them ^fwithout a parable, but ^gprivately to his own disciples he ^hexplained everything.