This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
They know not, nor do they discern; for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their minds, so that they cannot understand.
“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not;
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 spirit of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day.”