For this reason I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear nor do they understand.
“Son of man, you live in the midst of the rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but do not see, ears to hear, but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
‘Hear this you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
“But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
They do not know or understand! For He smeared over their eyes, so they cannot see, and their hearts, so they cannot understand.
just as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, until this very day.”