Acts 28:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

For the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, so that I should heal them.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    For this people's heart has grown calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    For the hert of this people is wexed grosse and their eares were thycke of hearynge and their eyes have they closed: lest they shuld se with their eyes and heare with their eares and vnderstonde with their hertes and shuld be converted and I shulde heale them.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For ye hert of this people is waxed grosse, & they heare hardly wt their eares: & their eyes haue they closed, yt they shulde not once se wt their eyes, & heare wt their eares, & vnderstode i their hertes, and be couerted, yt I mighte heale the.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And would turn again, And I would heal them.'

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they may see with the eyes, and with the heart may understand, and be turned back, and I may heal them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest, haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest, haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.'

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”’

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people dull, 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 be converted and healed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    13This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

    14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: By hearing, you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive.

    15For this people's heart has become callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.

    16But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

    17Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things you see but did not see them, and to hear the things you hear but did not hear them.

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    9And He said, Go and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and you see indeed, but do not perceive.

    10Make the heart of this people dull, 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 be converted and healed.

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    38that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

    39Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,

    40He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts and turn, and I should heal them.

    41These things Isaiah said when he saw his glory and spoke of him.

  • 26saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive.

  • Mark 4:12-13
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    12that 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.

    13And he said to them, Do you not know this parable? How then will you know all parables?

  • 28Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it.

  • 8According as it is written, God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this day.

  • Mark 8:17-18
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    17And when Jesus knew it, he said to them, Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Is your heart still hardened?

    18Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

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

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

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

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    11But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.

    12Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

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

  • 3And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

  • 4Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

  • 10To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

  • 20Seeing many things, but you do not observe; opening the ears, but he does not hear.

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

  • 15He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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

  • 18And 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.

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    34Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

    35Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.

  • 9He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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  • 14But their minds were blinded: for until this day, the same veil remains untaken away in the reading of the old covenant; which veil is done away in Christ.

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    6Not to many people of a strange language and hard speech, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

    7But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hardhearted.

  • 16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.

  • 12To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

  • 10Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and bend their backs always.

  • 16But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know him.

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

  • 23If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.

  • 9And he said to them, He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

  • 39And Jesus said, For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see might see; and that those who see might be made blind.

  • 5The 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.