Acts 28:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

‘Go to this people and say, You will indeed listen but never understand, and you will indeed look but never perceive.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; And seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Go to this people and say to them, You will indeed hear and hear with your ears but will not understand, and you will indeed look and look with your eyes but will not see [not perceive, have knowledge of or become acquainted with what you look at, at all].

American Standard Version (1901)

saying, Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

Common English Bible

“Go to this people and say:” “You will hear, to be sure, but never understand;” “and you will certainly see but never recognize what you are seeing.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

saying: 'Go to this people and say to them: Hearing, you shall hear and not understand, and seeing, you shall see and not perceive.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Saying: Go to this people, and say to them: With the ear you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive.

Acts 28:26 Cross References

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep; he has closed your eyes (the prophets) and covered your heads (the seers).

Isaiah 29:14

so I will again do amazing things with this people, shocking and amazing. The wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.

Isaiah 66:4

so I will choose their punishments and bring upon them what they fear, because, when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen, but they did what was evil in my sight and chose what did not please me.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Ezekiel 12:2

Mortal, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house who have eyes to see but do not see, who have ears to hear but do not hear,

Mark 4:12

in order that ‘they may indeed look but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.’ ”

Luke 24:25

Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared!

Luke 24:45

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,

Luke 8:10

He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others I speak in parables, so that ‘looking they may not perceive and hearing they may not understand.’

Acts 28:25

So they disagreed with each other, and as they were leaving Paul made one further statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah,

Deuteronomy 29:4

But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.