Acts 28:26

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Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

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  • Isa 6:9-9 : 9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser. 10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
  • Isa 42:19-20 : 19 Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant? 20 Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.
  • Ezek 12:2 : 2 Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.
  • Matt 13:14-15 : 14 And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: 15 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
  • Mark 4:12 : 12 So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.
  • Luke 8:10 : 10 And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.
  • Deut 29:4 : 4 But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
  • Ps 81:11-12 : 11 But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me. 12 So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
  • Isa 29:10 : 10 For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.
  • Isa 29:14 : 14 For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.
  • Isa 66:4 : 4 So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
  • Ezek 3:6-7 : 6 Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you. 7 But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.
  • Luke 24:25 : 25 And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said.
  • Luke 24:45 : 45 Then he made the holy Writings clear to their minds.
  • John 12:38-40 : 38 So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled? 39 For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again, 40 He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.
  • Rom 11:8-9 : 8 As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day. 9 And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment: 10 Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.
  • 2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them. 5 For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus. 6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Mark 8:17-18 : 17 And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard? 18 Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?

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  • Matt 13:13-18
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    13 For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

    14 And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

    15 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

    16 But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.

    17 For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

    18 Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

    10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

  • Acts 28:27-28
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    27 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

    28 Be certain, then, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will give hearing.

  • Mark 4:12-13
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    12 So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.

    13 And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?

  • John 12:38-41
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    38 So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?

    39 For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,

    40 He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

    41 (Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.)

  • Jer 5:21
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    21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

  • Mark 8:17-18
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    17 And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard?

    18 Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?

  • Isa 42:18
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    18 Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.

  • Rom 11:8
    76%

    8 As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

  • Isa 42:20
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    20 Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.

  • Rom 15:21
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    21 But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
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    21 In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 3:6
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    6 Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18 They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

  • Isa 28:11-12
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    11 No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:

    12 To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.

  • Acts 28:25
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    25 And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

  • Matt 11:15
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    15 He who has ears, let him give ear.

  • Mark 8:21
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    21 And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?

  • Deut 29:4
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    4 But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.

  • Luke 8:10
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    10 And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.

  • Matt 13:9
    73%

    9 He who has ears, let him give ear.

  • Jer 7:27-28
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    27 And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.

    28 And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.

  • Isa 32:3
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    3 And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.

  • John 10:6
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    6 In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.

  • Mark 4:9
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    9 And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear.

  • Luke 9:45
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    45 But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.

  • Jer 6:10
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    10 To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

  • Luke 18:34
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    34 But they did not take in the sense of any of these words, and what he said was not clear to them, and their minds were not able to see it.

  • Luke 17:23
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    23 And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them.

  • Matt 15:10
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    10 And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:

  • Mark 7:16
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  • Isa 29:11
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    11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut:

  • Isa 33:19
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    19 Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.

  • Rom 10:16
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    16 But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word?

  • Mark 4:23
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    23 If any man has ears, let him give ear.

  • Isa 29:18
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    18 And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.