Matthew 13:15

New English Translation

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

Cross References

Psalm 119:70

Their hearts are calloused, but I find delight in your law.

Proverbs 16:30

The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips brings about evil.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them and give them rest, and I will once again console those who mourn.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”

Jeremiah 17:14

Lord, grant me relief from my suffering so that I may have some relief. Rescue me from those who persecute me so that I may be rescued.

Jeremiah 17:9

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 3:22

Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. Say, ‘Here we are. We come to you because you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 33:6

But I will most surely heal the wounds of this city and restore it and its people to health. I will show them abundant peace and security.

Hosea 14:4

“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.

Zechariah 7:11

“But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

Malachi 4:2

But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.

Mark 4:12

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.”

Luke 19:42

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Acts 28:27

For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”’

Acts 3:19

Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,

Acts 7:57

But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.

2 Timothy 4:4

And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.

Hebrews 5:11

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

Revelation 22:2

flowing down the middle of the city’s main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.