...blood of Christ, it will be necessary to premise that of Mark iv. 1 1, 12 : "I speak by parables ; and all these things are done in parables ; that seeing they may see, and not perceive," &c. Ver. 34 : " Without a parable spake he not unto them : and when they were alone, he expounded all...

...the Kingdom of God. He continued by telling them that all others will hear only the parables so, 12. That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may not hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven...

...all these things are done in parables; 1 2 That seeing they may see. and not perceive; and healing o them. Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffe be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.' 1 3 And he said unto them, Know ye not this...

...know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables, so that 'Seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand; lest they should turn, and their sins be forgiven them.'" And He said to them, "Do you not understand this...

...told and would always tell the meaning of his stories, but to the multitude he told the stories only, "that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand."66 Kermode's central topos, in his classic work The Genesis of Secrecy, is St. Matthew's...