12 “Say, please, to the rebellious house,+ ‘Do YOU people actually not know what these things mean?’ Say, ‘Look! The king of Babylon* came to Jerusalem and proceeded to take its king+ and its princes and bring them to himself at Babylon.+

10 He said: “To YOU it is granted to understand the sacred secrets of the kingdom of God, but for the rest it is in illustrations,+ in order that, though looking, they may look in vain and, though hearing, they may not get the meaning.+