Acts 28:27

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For the heart of this people is waxed grosse, & their eares are dull of hearing, and their eyes haue they closed: lest they shoulde see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstande with their heartes, and shoulde be conuerted, and I shoulde heale them.

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  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Harden the heart of this people, stop their eares, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, heare with their eares, and vnderstande with their heartes, and conuert and be healed.

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  • 96%

    13Therfore speake I to them in parables: because they seeyng, see not: and hearyng, they heare not: neither do they vnderstande.

    14And in them is fulfylled the prophesie of Esaias, saying: by hearyng ye shall heare, and shall not vnderstande, and seeyng, ye shall see, & shall not perceaue.

    15For this peoples heart is waxed grosse, and their eares are dull of hearyng, and their eyes haue they closed: lest at any tyme they shoulde see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and shoulde vnderstande with their heart, & shoulde conuert, that I myght heale them.

    16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your eares, for they heare.

    17Ueryly I say vnto you, that many prophetes and ryghteous men haue desired to see those thynges which ye see, and haue not seene: and to heare those thynges which ye heare, and haue not hearde.

  • Isa 6:9-10
    2 verses
    88%

    9And he sayd, Go and tell this people: Heare in deede, yet vnderstande not, ye shall playnely see, and yet perceaue not.

    10Harden the heart of this people, stop their eares, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, heare with their eares, and vnderstande with their heartes, and conuert and be healed.

  • 87%

    38That the saying of Esaias the prophete myght be fulfylled, which he spake: Lorde, who shall beleue our saying? And to whom is the arme of the Lorde declared?

    39Therfore coulde they not beleue, because that Esaias sayth agayne:

    40He hath blynded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they shoulde not see with their eyes, & lest they should vnderstande with their hearte, & should be conuerted, and I should heale them.

    41Such thynges sayde Esaias, when he sawe his glory, and spake of hym.

  • 26Saying: Go vnto this people, and say, with your eares shall ye heare, and shall not vnderstande: and with your eyes shall ye see, and not perceaue.

  • Mark 4:12-13
    2 verses
    83%

    12That when they see, they may see and not discerne: and whe they heare, they may heare and not vnderstande, lest at any tyme, they shoulde turne, and their sinnes shoulde be forgeuen them.

    13And he sayde vnto them: Knowe ye not this parable? And howe then wyll ye knowe all other parables?

  • 28Be it knowen therfore vnto you, that this saluation of God is sent to the gentiles, and they shall heare it.

  • 8Accordyng as it is written: God hath geuen them the spirite of remorse, eyes that they shoulde not see, and eares that they shoulde not heare, euen vnto this day.

  • Mark 8:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17And Iesus knewe it, and sayth vnto them: Why reason ye, because ye haue no bread? Perceaue ye not yet, neither vnderstande? Haue ye your heart yet hardened?

    18Haue ye eyes, and see not? and haue ye eares & heare not? Do ye not remember?

  • 18Heare O ye deafe men, and sharpen your eyes to see O ye blinde.

  • 18Yet men neither consider nor vnderstande, because their eyes be stopped that they can not see, and their heartes that they can not perceaue.

  • 21Heare this thou foolishe and vndiscreete people, ye haue eyes but ye see not, eares haue ye but ye heare not.

  • Zech 7:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11Neuerthelesse, they would not take heede, but turned their backes, & stopped their eares that they should not heare:

    12Yea, they made their heartes as an Adamant stone, lest they should heare the law and wordes which the Lorde of hoastes sent in his holy spirite by the prophetes aforetime: Wherfore the lord of hoastes was very wroth at them.

  • 33They saye vnto hym? Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

  • 3The eyes of the seeing shall not be dim, and the eares of them that heare shall take diligent heede.

  • 4And yet the Lorde hath not geuen you an heart to perceaue, and eyes to see, and eares to heare, vnto this day.

  • 10But vnto whom shall I speake? whom shall I warne that he may take heede? Their eares are so vncircumcised, that they may not heare: beholde, they take the worde of God but for a scorne, and haue no lust therto.

  • 20Thou hast seene much, and kepest nothing: the eares are open, and no man heareth.

  • 18Darkened in cogitation, being alienated from the lyfe of God by the ignoraunce that is in them, by the blindnesse of their heartes.

  • 15He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

  • 5Then shall the eyes of the blynde be lyghtened, and the eares of the deaffe opened.

  • 18And in that day shall deafe men heare the wordes of the booke, and the eyes of the blynde shall see, euen out of the cloude, and out of darknesse.

  • Mark 7:34-35
    2 verses
    71%

    34And loked vp to heauen, and syghed, and sayde vnto him Ephphatha, that is to say, be opened.

    35And straightway his eares were opened, and the stryng of his tongue was loosed, and he spake playne.

  • 9Who hath eares to heare, let hym heare.

  • 13Therfore thus hath the Lorde sayd: Forsomuche as this people when they be in trouble, do honour me with their mouth and with their lippes, but their heart is farre fro me, and the feare whiche they haue vnto me proceedeth of a commaundement that is taught of men:

  • 70%

    30And great multitudes came vnto him, hauyng with them those that were lame, blynde, dumbe, maymed, & other many, and cast them downe at Iesus feete: And he healed them.

    31In so much that the people wondred, when they sawe the dumbe speake, the maymed to be whole, the lame to walke, and the blynde to see: And they glorified the God of Israel.

  • 14But their myndes were blynded: For vntyll this day remayneth the same coueryng vntaken away in the reading of the olde testament, which vayle is put away in Christe.

  • Ezek 3:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6Not to many nations whiche haue profounde lippes and harde languages, whose wordes thou vnderstandest not: otherwise if I had sent thee vnto them, they would haue hearkened vnto thee.

    7But the house of Israel will not hearken vnto thee, for they will not hearken vnto me: for al the house of Israel haue stiffe foreheades, & stubburne heartes.

  • 16If any man haue eares to heare, let hym heare.

  • 12If any man say vnto them, lo, this is the rest wherewith ye may ease hym that is weerie, this is the refreshing: they wyll not hearken.

  • 10Let their eyes be blinded yt they see not, & bowe thou downe their backe alway.

  • 16But their eyes were holden, that they shoulde not knowe him.

  • 5Why shoulde ye be stricken any more? for ye are euer fallyng away: euery head is diseased, and euery heart heauy:

  • 23If any man haue eares to heare, let hym heare.

  • 9And he saide vnto them: He that hath eares to heare, let hym heare.

  • 39And Iesus sayde vnto hym: I am come vnto iudgement into this worlde, that they which see not, myght see: and that they which see, myght be made blynde.

  • 5The blinde receaue their sight, the halt do walke, the lepers are cleansed, and the deafe heare, the dead are raised vp, and the poore receaue the Gospell.