Acts 28:27

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

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  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

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  • 96%

    13 ‹Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.›

    14 ‹And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:›

    15 ‹For this people's heart is waxed gross, and› [their] ‹ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with› [their] ‹eyes, and hear with› [their] ‹ears, and should understand with› [their] ‹heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.›

    16 ‹But blessed› [are] ‹your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.›

    17 ‹For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous› [men] ‹have desired to see› [those things] ‹which ye see, and have not seen› [them]; ‹and to hear› [those things] ‹which ye hear, and have not heard› [them].

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    88%

    9 ¶ And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

    10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

  • 87%

    38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

    39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,

    40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

    41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

  • 26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:

  • Mark 4:12-13
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    83%

    12 ‹That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and› [their] ‹sins should be forgiven them.›

    13 And he said unto them, ‹Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?›

  • 28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and [that] they will hear it.

  • 8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

  • Mark 8:17-18
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    75%

    17 And when Jesus knew [it], he saith unto them, ‹Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?›

    18 ‹Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?›

  • 18 ¶ Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

  • 18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

  • Zech 7:11-12
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    11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

    12 Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

  • 33 They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

  • 3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

  • 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

  • 10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

  • 20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

  • 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

  • 15 ‹He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.›

  • 5 ¶ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

  • 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

  • Mark 7:34-35
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    71%

    34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, ‹Ephphatha,› that is, Be opened.

    35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

  • 9 ‹Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.›

  • 13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

  • 70%

    30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them [those that were] lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:

    31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

  • 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ.

  • Ezek 3:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

    7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel [are] impudent and hardhearted.

  • 16 ‹If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.›

  • 12 To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

  • 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

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

  • 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

  • 23 ‹If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.›

  • 9 And he said unto them, ‹He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.›

  • 39 ¶ And Jesus said, ‹For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.›

  • 5 ‹The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.›