Matthew 13:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

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King 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.

Matthew 13:13 Cross References

Isaiah 44:18

They know not, nor do they discern; for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their minds, so that they cannot understand.

Jeremiah 5:21

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

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not;

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! they are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”

Matthew 13:16

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

Romans 11:8

as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day.”