Acts 28:27

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.'

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  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fat. 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 turn again, and be healed."

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    13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

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    16 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

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  • Isa 6:9-10
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    9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'

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  • John 12:38-41
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    8 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."

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    17 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

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