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Luke 8:9-11
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The Purpose of the Parables

9 And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, 10 he said, (A)“To you it has been given to know (B)the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so (C)that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’ 11 (D)Now the parable is this: The seed is (E)the word of God.

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