For this I speak to them in parables: for seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Son of man, thou art dwelling in the midst of a house of contradiction, which to them eyes to see, and they saw not: ears to them to hear, and they heard not: for they are a house of contradiction.
Hear now this, O foolish people, and no heart; eyes to them and they will not see; and ears to them, and they will not hear:
But happy your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
They will not know, and they will not discern: he spread over their eyes from seeing; their heart from considering.
And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah, they say to me, Does he not use parables?
(As has been written, God gave them the spirit of mortal pain, eyes not to see, and earn not to hear;) even to this day.