Acts 28:27

Bible in Basic English 1965

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

Cross References

Psalm 119:70

Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

Matthew 13:14

And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

Matthew 13:15

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

Deuteronomy 29:4

But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.