Matthew 13:13

New International Version

This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

Cross References

Isaiah 44:18

They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Sovereign Lord, they are saying of me, ‘Isn’t he just telling parables?’ ”

Matthew 13:16

But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

Romans 11:8

as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”