Mark 4:12 - English Majority Text Version 2009

so that 'Seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, and their sins be forgiven them.' "

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

that 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

In order that they may [indeed] look and look but not see and perceive, and may hear and hear but not grasp and comprehend, lest haply they should turn again, and it [their willful rejection of the truth] should be forgiven them. [Isa. 6:9, 10; Matt. 13:13-15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them.

Common English Bible

This is so that they can look and see but have no insight, and they can hear but not understand. Otherwise, they might turn their lives around and be forgiven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

'so that, seeing, they may see, and not perceive; and hearing, they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they may be converted, and their sins would be forgiven them.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

That 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.

Mark 4:12 Cross References

Mark 8:18

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

Luke 8:10

And He said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest [they are] in parables, that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

Acts 3:19

Repent therefore and turn back, that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

2 Timothy 2:25

in meekness instructing those that oppose, if God perhaps may give them repentance, to a full knowledge of the truth,

Hebrews 6:6

and having fallen away, to renew [them] again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and hold Him up to contempt.