Answering at that time, Jesus said, I praise You, Father, Lord of Heaven and of earth, because You hid these things from the sophisticated and learned ones and revealed them to babes.
And the seed sown into the thornbushes is this: the one hearing the Word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceit of riches, choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Then they said to Him, Where is Your father? Jesus answered, You neither know Me, nor My Father. If you had known Me, then you also would have known My Father.
For the ones dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing this One,and the voices of the prophets, the ones being read according to every sabbath, condemning Him, they fulfilled the Scriptures.
But their thoughts were hardened, for until this very day the same veil remains on the reading of the Old Covenant, not being unveiled, that it is being done away in Christ.
having been darkened in the intellect, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the hardness of their heart,