But your eyes are fortunate for they [really] see, and so are your ears, for they [really] hear.
Matthew 13:13 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) Therefore, I am speaking to them with parables because [although] they can see, they [really] do not perceive, and [although] they can hear, they [really] do not comprehend, and so they [utterly] fail to understand [what I am trying to get across]. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This is the reason that I speak to them in parables: because having the power of seeing, they do not see; and having the power of hearing, they do not hear, nor do they grasp and understand. American Standard Version (1901) Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Common English Bible This is why I speak to the crowds in parables: although they see, they don’t really see; and although they hear, they don’t really hear or understand. Catholic Public Domain Version For this reason, I speak to them in parables: because seeing, they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. |
But your eyes are fortunate for they [really] see, and so are your ears, for they [really] hear.
as it has been written [Isa. 19:10], “God gave them a spirit of numbness [i.e., they developed a spiritual insensitivity to God and His word]. [He gave them] eyes to see with [but they would not look], and ears to hear with [but they did not listen]. And they still have this spirit.”