Jesus said “Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

Then disciples said – why do you use parables to tell stories to the people.

The parables are to things people can relate too, but it to reveal to the people who need to be “convicted” without making a direct accusation, so they can apply to a vast audience, each in a different way. Parables are very common way to communicate. Jesus used them often.

He sais to the discples:

:This is why I speak in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prochecy of Isaiah:

“You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiging. For this people’s heart has been calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, heart with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.”

He goes on to say: “Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they heart. For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and ot heart what you hear but did not hear it. Listen to the parable of the sower – when anyone hears the message bout the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and sntaches away what was sown in their heart.

Great stuff in this chapter… more tomorrow