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This is a teaching from a Bible Church
The disciples did not like Jesus using parables, for they and the multitude could not understand them. So they asked Jesus, “Why speakest thou unto them in parables?” (Matt 13:10).
Jesus said He used parables to confuse the people and keep them from understanding, for He did not want them converted (Matt 13:11-15).
“Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. . . .Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. . . . 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.”
The disciples did not like Jesus using parables, for they and the multitude could not understand them. So they asked Jesus, “Why speakest thou unto them in parables?” (Matt 13:10).
Jesus said He used parables to confuse the people and keep them from understanding, for He did not want them converted (Matt 13:11-15).
“Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. . . .Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. . . . 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.”