Mark 4:12

Modern English Version

so that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand; lest they should turn, and their sins be forgiven them.’ ”

Cross References

Isaiah 43:8

Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

Isaiah 44:18

They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see, and their hearts so that they cannot understand.

Jeremiah 36:3

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster which I intend to do to them, so that every man may turn from his evil way; then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this now, O foolish people and without understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Ezekiel 12:2

Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which has eyes to see and does not see, ears to hear and does not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

Mark 8:18

Having eyes, do you not see? Having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

Luke 8:10

He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Acts 3:19

Therefore repent and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear.

2 Timothy 2:25

in gentleness instructing those in opposition. Perhaps God will grant them repentance to know the truth,

Hebrews 6:6

if they fall away, to be renewed once more to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and subject Him to public shame.