John 12:40

The Text-Critical English New Testament

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn back, and I would heal them.”

Cross References

Matthew 15:14

Leave them be; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”

Mark 4:12

so that ‘they may see but not perceive, and hear but not understand, lest they should turn back and their sins be forgiven them.’ ”

Mark 6:52

for they did not understand the significance of what had happened with the loaves, because their hearts were hardened.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set the oppressed free,

Luke 8:10

He said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest I speak in parables, so that ‘they may see but not perceive, and hear but not understand.’

John 12:39

For this reason they could not believe, for again Isaiah said,

John 9:39

Then Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”

Acts 15:3

After being sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria and brought great joy to all the brothers when they described in detail the conversion of the Gentiles.

Acts 28:26

‘Go to this people and say, “Although you will hear, you will never understand, and although you will see, you will never perceive.”

Acts 3:19

Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped away, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Romans 9:18

So then, God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.