Matthew 13:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.’

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  • John 8:43-44 : 43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching. 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 “But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.
  • Heb 5:11 : 11 The Need to Move on to Maturity On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.
  • Ps 119:70 : 70 Their hearts are calloused, but I find delight in your law.
  • 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.”
  • 2 Tim 4:4 : 4 And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.
  • Isa 29:10-12 : 10 For the LORD has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes(the prophets), and covered your heads(the seers). 11 To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say,“Read this,” he responds,“I can’t, because it is sealed.” 12 Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say,“Read this,” he says,“I can’t read.”
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say,‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
  • Isa 57:18 : 18 I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them. I will lead them, and I will provide comfort to them and those who mourn with them.
  • Jer 3:22 : 22 Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. Say,‘Here we are. We come to you because you are the LORD our God.
  • Jer 17:14 : 14 LORD, grant me relief from my suffering so that I may have some relief; rescue me from those who persecute me so that I may be rescued, for you give me reason to praise!
  • Jer 33:6 : 6 But I will most surely heal the wounds of this city and restore it and its people to health. I will show them abundant peace and security.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 Divine Promise to Relent from Judgment and to Restore Blessings“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age, 6 and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.
  • Rev 22:2 : 2 flowing down the middle of the city’s main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.
  • Mark 4:12 : 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.”
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,
  • Acts 7:57 : 57 But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-11 : 10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved. 11 Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false.
  • 2 Tim 2:25-26 : 25 correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth 26 and they will come to their senses and escape the devil’s trap where they are held captive to do his will.

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  • 96%

    26when 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.

    27For 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.”’

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

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

    10Make 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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    38so 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?”

    39For 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.”

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

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    13For 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.

    14And 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.

  • Mark 4:12-13
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    12so 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.”

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

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

    17For 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.

    18“So listen to the parable of the sower:

  • Mark 8:17-18
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    17When 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?

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

  • 15The one who has ears had better listen!

  • 8as 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.”

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

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

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

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

    34Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.

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

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

  • 10True Defilement Then he called the crowd to him and said,“Listen and understand.

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    30Then 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.

    31As 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.

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

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

  • 14But 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 13The 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.

  • 39Jesus 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.”

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

  • 8‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,

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

  • 30And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus sternly warned them,“See that no one knows about this!”

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

  • 52because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

  • 18They 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.

  • 18At 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.

  • 41Jesus replied,“If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.

  • 45But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.