John 12:40

Geneva Bible (1560)

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.

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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.
  • Matt 13:13-15 : 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.
  • Mark 4:12 : 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.
  • Luke 8:10 : 10 And he sayd, Vnto you it is giuen to know the secrets of ye kingdome of God, but to other in parables, that when they see, they shoulde not see, and when they heare, they should not vnderstand.
  • Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, and let vs returne to the Lord: for he hath spoyled, and he will heale vs: he hath wounded vs, and he will binde vs vp.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 (14:5) I wil heale their rebellion: I wil loue them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
  • Isa 29:10 : 10 For the Lord hath couered you with a spirite of slumber, and hath shut vp your eyes: the Prophets, & your chiefe Seers hath he couered.
  • Isa 57:18-19 : 18 I haue seene his wayes, and wil heale him: I wil leade him also, & restore comfort vnto him, and to those that lament him. 19 I create the fruite of the lips, to be peace: peace vnto them that are farre off, and to them that are neere, sayth the Lorde: for I will heale him.
  • Jer 3:22 : 22 O yee disobedient children, returne and I wil heale your rebellions. Behold, we come vnto thee, for thou art the Lord our God.
  • Josh 11:20 : 20 For it came of the Lorde, to harden their heartes that they shoulde come against Israel in battell to the intent that they shoulde destroye them vtterly, and shewe them no mercie, but that they shoulde bring them to nought: as the Lorde had commaunded Moses.
  • Ps 6:2 : 2 Haue mercie vpon me, O Lorde, for I am weake: O Lord heale me, for my bones are vexed.
  • Ps 41:4 : 4 Therefore I saide, Lorde haue mercie vpon me: heale my soule, for I haue sinned against thee.
  • Ps 147:3 : 3 He healeth those that are broken in heart, and bindeth vp their sores.
  • Ps 135:10-18 : 10 He smote many nations, and slew mightie Kings: 11 As Sihon King of the Amorites, and Og King of Bashan, & all the kingdomes of Canaan: 12 And gaue their lande for an inheritance, euen an inheritance vnto Israel his people. 13 Thy Name, O Lorde, endureth for euer: O Lorde, thy remembrance is from generation to generation. 14 For the Lord will iudge his people, and be pacified towardes his seruants. 15 The idoles of the heathen are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens handes. 16 They haue a mouth, and speake not: they haue eyes and see not. 17 They haue eares and heare not, neither is there any breath in their mouth. 18 They that make them, are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.
  • 1 Kgs 22:20 : 20 And the Lord sayd, Who shall entise Ahab that he may go and fall at Ramoth Gilead? And one said on this maner, and another sayd on that maner.
  • Exod 4:21 : 21 And the Lorde saide vnto Moses, When thou art entred and come into Egypt againe, see that thou doe all the wonders before Pharaoh, which I haue put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, and he shall not let the people goe.
  • Exod 7:3 : 3 But I will harden Pharaohs heart, and multiplie my miracles and my wonders in the lande of Egypt.
  • Exod 7:13 : 13 So Pharaohs heart was hardened, and hee hearkened not to them, as the Lorde had saide.
  • Exod 14:4 : 4 And I will harden Pharaohs heart that hee shall followe after you: so I will get mee honour vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his hoste: the Egyptians also shall knowe that I am the Lorde: and they did so.
  • Exod 14:8 : 8 (For the Lorde had hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he followed after the children of Israel: but the children of Israel went out with an hie hand)
  • Exod 14:17 : 17 And I, beholde, I will harden the heart of the Egyptians, that they may followe them, and I wil get me honour vpon Pharaoh, & vpon all his host, vpon his charets, and vpon his horsemen.
  • Deut 29:4 : 4 Yet the Lord hath not giuen you an heart to perceiue, and eyes to see, & eares to heare, vnto this day.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Heare nowe this, O foolish people, and without vnderstanding, which haue eyes and see not, which haue eares and heare not.
  • Ezek 12:2 : 2 Sonne of man, thou dwellest in the middes of a rebellious house, which haue eyes to see, and see not: they haue eares to heare, and heare not: for they are a rebellious house.
  • Ezek 14:9 : 9 And if the Prophet be deceiued, when hee hath spoken a thing, I the Lorde haue deceiued that Prophet, and I will stretch out mine hande vpon him, and will destroy him from the middes of my people of Israel.
  • Isa 42:19-20 : 19 Who is blinde but my seruaunt? or deafe as my messenger, that I sent? who is blind as the perfit, and blinde as the Lordes seruant? 20 Seeing many things, but thou keepest them not? opening the eares, but he heareth not?
  • Isa 53:5 : 5 But hee was wounded for our transgressions, hee was broken for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was vpon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
  • Isa 26:11 : 11 O Lorde, they will not beholde thine hie hande: but they shall see it, and bee confounded with the zeale of the people, and the fire of thine enemies shall deuoure them.
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them alone, they be the blinde leaders of the blinde: and if the blinde leade ye blinde, both shall fall into the ditche.
  • Mark 6:52 : 52 For they had not considered the matter of the loaues, because their hearts were hardened.
  • Mark 8:17-18 : 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?
  • Luke 4:18 : 18 The Spirit of the Lorde is vpon mee, because he hath anoynted me, that I should preach the Gospel to the poore: he hath sent mee, that I should heale the broken hearted, that I should preach deliuerance to the captiues, and recouering of sight to the blinde, that I should set at libertie them that are bruised:
  • John 9:39 : 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.
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 Amend your liues therefore, and turne, that your sinnes may be put away, whe the time of refreshing shal come from the presence of the Lord.
  • Acts 28:26 : 26 Saying, Goe vnto this people, and say, By hearing ye shal heare, & shal not vnderstand, and seeing ye shall see, and not perceiue.
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 Therefore he hath mercie on whome he will, and whom he will, he hardeneth.
  • Rom 11:7-9 : 7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that he sought: but the election hath obteined it, and the rest haue bene hardened, 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. 9 And Dauid sayth, Let their table be made a snare, and a net, and a stumbling blocke, euen for a recompence vnto them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not, and bowe downe their backe alwayes. 11 I demaund then, Haue they stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid: but through their fall, saluation commeth vnto the Gentiles, to prouoke them to follow them.
  • Jas 5:19-20 : 19 Brethren, if any of you hath erred from the trueth, and some man hath conuerted him, 20 Let him knowe that he which hath conuerted the sinner from going astray out of his way, shall saue a soule from death, and shal hide a multitude of sinnes.
  • Acts 15:3 : 3 Thus being brought forth by ye Church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conuersion of the Gentiles, and they brought great ioy vnto all the brethren.

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