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Matthew 13:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.’

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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.”