Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don't you remember? — the eyes-fail-to-see and ears-fail-to-hear language is Jeremiah 5:21 and Ezekiel 12:2 — the prophetic indictment of Israel's inability to perceive the divine action in their midst. The disciples who have been given the secret of the kingdom (Mark 4:11) and who have received the private explanations of the parables are nevertheless failing to perceive what Jesus is doing. Don't you remember communicates that the evidence is available in their own experience — the two feedings they participated in.

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