Kejadian 9:3

9:3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. ¹  As I gave you ²  the green plants, I now give ³  you everything.

Matius 13:15

13:15 For the heart of this people has become dull;

they are hard of hearing,

and they have shut their eyes,

so that they would not see with their eyes

and hear with their ears

and understand with their hearts

and turn, and I would heal them.’ ⁴ 

Markus 7:21-22

7:21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder, 7:22 adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

¹ tn Heb “every moving thing that lives for you will be for food.”

² tn The words “I gave you” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³ tn The perfect verb form describes the action that accompanies the declaration.

⁴ sn A quotation from Isa 6:9-10. Thus parables both conceal or reveal depending on whether one is open to hearing what they teach.