Acts 28:27

Geneva Bible (1560)

For the heart of this people is waxed fatte, and their eares are dull of hearing, and with their eyes haue they winked, least they shoulde see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their heartes, and should returne that I might heale them.

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  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fatte, make their eares heauie, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their hearts, and conuert, and he heale them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 96%

    13 Therefore speake I to them in parables, because they seeing, doe not see: and hearing, they heare not, neither vnderstand.

    14 So in them is fulfilled the prophecie of Esaias, which prophecie saieth, By hearing, ye shall heare, and shall not vnderstand, and seeing, ye shal see, and shall not perceiue.

    15 For this peoples heart is waxed fat, & their eares are dull of hearing, and with their eyes they haue winked, lest they should see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, & should vnderstand with their hearts, & should returne, that I might heale them.

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

    17 For verely I say vnto you, that many Prophets, & righteous men haue desired to see those things which ye see, & haue not seene them, & to heare those things which ye heare, and haue not heard them.

  • Isa 6:9-10
    2 verses
    88%

    9 And he sayd, Goe, and say vnto this people, Ye shall heare in deede, but ye shall not vnderstand: ye shall plainely see, and not perceiue.

    10 Make the heart of this people fatte, make their eares heauie, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their hearts, and conuert, and he heale them.

  • 87%

    38 That the saying of Esaias the Prophete might be fulfilled, that he sayd, Lord, who beleeued our report? and to whome is the arme of the Lord reueiled?

    39 Therefore could they not beleeue, because that Esaias saith againe,

    40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardned their heart, that they shoulde not see with their eyes, nor vnderstand with their heart, and should be conuerted, and I should heale them.

    41 These things sayd Esaias when he sawe his glory, and spake of him.

  • 26 Saying, Goe vnto this people, and say, By hearing ye shal heare, & shal not vnderstand, and seeing ye shall see, and not perceiue.

  • Mark 4:12-13
    2 verses
    83%

    12 That they seeing, may see, and not discerne: and they hearing, may heare, and not vnderstand, least at any time they should turne, and their sinnes should be forgiuen them.

    13 Againe he said vnto them, Perceiue ye not this parable? howe then should ye vnderstand all other parables?

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

  • 8 According as it is written, God hath giuen them the spirit of slumber: eyes that they should not see, and eares that they should not heare vnto this day.

  • Mark 8:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17 And when Iesus knew it, he said vnto them, Why reason you thus, because ye haue no bread? perceiue ye not yet, neither vnderstande? haue ye your hearts yet hardened?

    18 Haue yee eyes, and see not? and haue yee eares, and heare not? and doe ye not remember?

  • 18 Heare, ye deafe: and ye blinde, regarde, that ye may see.

  • 18 They haue not knowen, nor vnderstand: for God hath shut their eyes that they cannot see, and their heartes, that they cannot vnderstand.

  • 21 Heare nowe this, O foolish people, and without vnderstanding, which haue eyes and see not, which haue eares and heare not.

  • Zech 7:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their eares, that they should not heare.

    12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, least they should heare the Lawe and the wordes which the Lord of hostes sent in his spirit by the ministerie of ye former Prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hostes.

  • 33 They saide to him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

  • 3 The eyes of the seeing shal not be shut, and the eares of them that heare, shall hearken.

  • 4 Yet the Lord hath not giuen you an heart to perceiue, and eyes to see, & eares to heare, vnto this day.

  • 10 Vnto whome shall I speake, and admonish that they may heare? beholde, their eares are vncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: beholde, the worde of the Lord is vnto them as a reproche: they haue no delite in it.

  • 20 Seeing many things, but thou keepest them not? opening the eares, but he heareth not?

  • 18 Hauing their vnderstanding darkened, and being strangers from the life of God through the ignorace that is in them, because of the hardnesse of their heart:

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

  • 5 Then shall the eyes of the blinde be lightened, and the eares of the deafe be opened.

  • 18 And in that day shall the deafe heare the wordes of the booke, and the eyes of the blinde shall see out of obscuritie, and out of darkenesse.

  • Mark 7:34-35
    2 verses
    71%

    34 And looking vp to heauen, hee sighed, and said vnto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

    35 And straightway his eares were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and hee spake plaine.

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

  • 13 Therefore the Lord sayd, Because this people come neere vnto me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but haue remooued their heart farre from me, and their feare toward me was taught by the precept of men,

  • 70%

    30 And great multitudes came vnto him, hauing with them, halt, blinde, dumme, maymed, and many other, and cast them downe at Iesus feete, and he healed them.

    31 In so much that the multitude wondered, to see the dumme speake, the maimed whole, the halt to goe, and the blinde to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

  • 14 Therefore their mindes are hardened: for vntill this day remaineth the same couering vntaken away in the reading of the olde Testament, which vaile in Christ is put away.

  • Ezek 3:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 Not to many people of an vnknowen tongue, or of an harde language, whose wordes thou canst not vnderstand: yet if I should sende thee to them, they would obey thee.

    7 But the house of Israel will not obey thee: for they will not obey me: yea, all the house of Israel are impudent and stiffe hearted.

  • 16 If any haue eares to heare, let him heare.

  • 12 Vnto whome hee saide, This is the rest: giue rest to him that is weary: and this is the refreshing, but they would not heare.

  • 10 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not, and bowe downe their backe alwayes.

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

  • 5 Wherefore shoulde ye be smitten any more? For ye fall away more and more: the whole head is sicke, and the whole heart is heauie.

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

  • 9 Then he said vnto them, He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

  • 39 And Iesus sayd, I am come vnto iudgement into this world, that they which see not, might see: and that they which see, might be made blinde.

  • 5 The blinde receiue sight, and the halt doe walke: the lepers are clensed, and the deafe heare, the dead are raised vp, and the poore receiue the Gospel.