Acts 28:27

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.”’

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  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”

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  • 96%

    13 For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

    14 And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

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

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

    17 For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

  • Isa 6:9-10
    2 verses
    88%

    9 He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

    10 Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”

  • 87%

    38 so that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled. He said,“Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

    39 For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,

    40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”

    41 Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.

  • 26 when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

  • Mark 4:12-13
    2 verses
    83%

    12 so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.”

    13 He said to them,“Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?

  • 28 “Therefore be advised that this salvation from God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

  • 8 as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

  • Mark 8:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17 When he learned of this, Jesus said to them,“Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

    18 Though you have eyes, don’t you see? And though you have ears, can’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

  • 18 The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

  • 18 They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

  • 21 Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • Zech 7:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 “But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

    12 Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had poured out great wrath.

  • 33 They said to him,“Lord, let our eyes be opened.”

  • 3 Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

  • 4 But to this very day the LORD has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!

  • 10 I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

  • 20 You see many things, but don’t comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear.”

  • 18 They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

  • 15 The one who has ears had better listen!

  • 5 Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.

  • 18 At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

  • Mark 7:34-35
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    34 Then he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh,“Ephphatha”(that is,“Be opened”).

    35 And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his tongue loosened, and he spoke plainly.

  • 9 The one who has ears had better listen!”

  • 13 The Lord says,“These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.

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    30 Then large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

    31 As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

  • 14 But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away.

  • Ezek 3:6-7
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    6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand– surely if I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!

    7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, because they are not willing to listen to me, for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.

  • 12 In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.

  • 10 let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”

  • 16 (but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).

  • 5 Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole heart is sick.

  • 23 If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!”

  • 9 And he said,“Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!”

  • 39 Jesus said,]“For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”

  • 5 The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them