Acts 28:27

American Standard Version (1901)

For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest, haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

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  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.

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  • 96%

    13Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

    14And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

    15For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

    16But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

    17For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    88%

    9And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

    10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.

  • 87%

    38that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

    39For this cause they could not believe, for that Isaiah said again,

    40He hath blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart; Lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, And should turn, And I should heal them.

    41These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; and he spake of him.

  • 26saying, Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

  • Mark 4:12-13
    2 verses
    83%

    12that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them.

    13And he saith unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how shall ye know all the parables?

  • 28Be it known therefore unto you, that this salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles: they will also hear.

  • 8according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.

  • Mark 8:17-18
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    17And Jesus perceiving it saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? do ye not yet perceive, neither understand? have ye your heart hardened?

    18Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

  • 18Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

  • 18They know not, neither do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • 21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:

  • Zech 7:11-12
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    11But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

    12Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came great wrath from Jehovah of hosts.

  • 33They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

  • 3And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

  • 4but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

  • 10To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah is become unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

  • 20Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not.

  • 18being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

  • 15He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

  • 5Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

  • 18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

  • Mark 7:34-35
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    34and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

    35And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

  • 9He that hath ears, let him hear.

  • 13And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh [unto me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught [them] ;

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    30And there came unto him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they cast them down at this feet; and he healed them:

    31insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, and lame walking, and the blind seeing: and they glorified the God of Israel.

  • 14but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ.

  • Ezek 3:6-7
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    6not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken unto thee.

    7But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.

  • 16(Ommitted)

  • 12to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

  • 10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always.

  • 16But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

  • 5Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

  • 23If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.

  • 9And he said, Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

  • 39And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind.

  • 5the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good tidings preached to them.