Mark 4:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ And he said, “Let anyone with ears to hear listen!”

The Purpose of the Parables

¹⁰ When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables. ¹¹ And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret^[a] of the kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in parables;