Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!
Mark 4:12 - English Standard Version 2016 so that “‘they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.’” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In order that they may [indeed] look and look but not see and perceive, and may hear and hear but not grasp and comprehend, lest haply they should turn again, and it [their willful rejection of the truth] should be forgiven them. [Isa. 6:9, 10; Matt. 13:13-15.] American Standard Version (1901) that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them. Common English Bible This is so that they can look and see but have no insight, and they can hear but not understand. Otherwise, they might turn their lives around and be forgiven. Catholic Public Domain Version 'so that, seeing, they may see, and not perceive; and hearing, they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they may be converted, and their sins would be forgiven them.' " Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand: lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. |
Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!
They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
“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, for they are a rebellious house.
Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?
he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.
correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.