Matthew 13:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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:

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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.
  • 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.
  • Acts 28:25-27 : 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, 26 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: 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.
  • 2 Cor 3:14 : 14 But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.
  • 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.
  • John 12:39-40 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 13:13
    91%

    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.

  • Acts 28:26-27
    2 verses
    89%

    26 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:

    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.

  • Mark 4:11-13
    3 verses
    87%

    11 And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories;

    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?

  • Matt 13:15-18
    4 verses
    87%

    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
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

  • John 12:38-41
    4 verses
    82%

    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.)

  • Mark 8:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    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?

  • Luke 8:10
    78%

    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 13:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9 He who has ears, let him give ear.

    10 And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories?

    11 And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

  • Matt 11:15
    77%

    15 He who has ears, let him give ear.

  • Matt 12:17
    77%

    17 So that what was said by Isaiah the prophet might come true,

  • Jer 5:21
    76%

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

  • Isa 42:20
    76%

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

  • 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 42:18
    76%

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

  • Isa 44:18
    76%

    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.

  • Rom 15:21
    75%

    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.

  • Matt 13:34-35
    2 verses
    75%

    34 All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

    35 That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.

  • Mark 4:9
    75%

    9 And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear.

  • John 10:6
    74%

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

  • Mark 8:21
    74%

    21 And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?

  • Luke 18:34
    74%

    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 9:45
    74%

    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.

  • Mark 4:23
    74%

    23 If any man has ears, let him give ear.

  • Matt 15:10
    74%

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

  • Luke 10:24
    73%

    24 For I say to you that numbers of prophets and kings have had a desire to see the things which you see, and have not seen them, and to have knowledge of the things which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

  • Isa 29:18
    73%

    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.

  • Matt 4:14
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    14 So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true,

  • Mark 7:16
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  • Isa 32:3
    73%

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

  • John 8:43
    73%

    43 Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.

  • John 9:39
    73%

    39 And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
    73%

    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.

  • Isa 29:11
    73%

    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:

  • Matt 15:16
    73%

    16 And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?

  • John 9:41
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    41 Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.