The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’
They do not know, nor do they comprehend; for their eyes are shut, so that they cannot see, and their minds as well, so that they cannot understand.
Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but do not see, who have ears, but do not hear.
Mortal, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, who have ears to hear but do not hear;
Then I said, “Ah Lord God! they are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”
But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
as it is written, “God gave them a sluggish spirit, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”