At that time Yahshua answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Sovereign of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Yahshua answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The Elohim of majesty appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail unremoved in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in the Messiah.
That the Elohim of our Master Yahshua the Messiah, the Father of majesty, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of Elohim through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: