Matthew 13:15 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁵ For the heart of this people has become dull, their ears can barely hear, and they have shut their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts. Then they would turn back, and I would heal them.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest at any time they should see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And should understand with their heart, And should be converted, and I should heal them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ For this nation's heart has grown gross (fat and dull), and their ears heavy and difficult of hearing, and their eyes they have tightly closed, lest they see and perceive with their eyes, and hear and comprehend the sense with their ears, and grasp and understand with their heart, and turn and I should heal them. [Isa. 6:9, 10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ For this people’s heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ For this people’s senses have become calloused, and they’ve become hard of hearing, and they’ve shut their eyes so that they won’t see with their eyes or hear with their ears or understand with their minds, and change their hearts and lives that I may heal them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ For the heart of this people has grown fat, and with their ears they hear heavily, and they have closed their eyes, lest at any time they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and then I would heal them.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Matthew 13:15 Cross References

Psalm 119:70

Their minds are insensible, but Your Torah is my delight.

Proverbs 16:30

One who winks his eyes schemes deceit, one who purses his lips is bent on evil.

Isaiah 44:20

He is feeding on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, so he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t what is in my right hand a fraud?”

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him. I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people fat, their ears heavy, and their eyes blind. Else they would see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return, and be healed.”

Jeremiah 17:14

Heal me, Adonai, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved. For You are my praise.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?

Jeremiah 3:22

“Return, backsliding children! I will heal your backsliding.” “Yes, we will come to You for You are Adonai Eloheinu.

Jeremiah 33:6

“Indeed, I will bring it health and healing, and I will surely heal them. I will reveal to them an abundance of shalom and truth.

Hosea 14:4

‘Assyria will not save us. We will not ride on horses, and we will never again say, “Our god,” to the work of our hands, for with You, orphans find mercy.’”

Zechariah 7:11

“But they refused to pay attention. They stubbornly turned their backs and stopped their ears from hearing.

Mark 4:12

‘Seeing, they may see and not perceive, and hearing, they may hear and not understand, so they may not turn back and be forgiven.’”

Luke 19:42

saying, “If only you had recognized this day the things that lead to shalom! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Acts 28:27

For the heart of this people has become dull, their ears can barely hear, and they have shut their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts. Then they would turn back, and I would heal them.”’

Acts 3:19

Repent, therefore, and return—so your sins might be blotted out,

Acts 7:57

But they covered their ears; and crying out with a loud voice, they rushed at him with one impulse.

2 Timothy 4:4

And they will turn away from hearing the truth and wander off to myths.

Hebrews 5:11

About this subject there is much for us to say, and it is hard to explain since you have become sluggish in hearing.

Revelation 22:2

down the middle of the city’s street. On either side of the river was a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.