Matthew 13:13-14

13This is why I speak to them in parables, because aseeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, bnor do they understand. 14Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:

c“‘“You will indeed hear but never understand,
and you will indeed see but never perceive.”

John 16:25

I Have Overcome the World

25“I have said these things to you in figures of speech. dThe hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Acts 17:18

18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, eWhat does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because fhe was preaching gJesus and the resurrection.
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