Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
Mark 4:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'* 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 blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.
It may be that the house of Yehudah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.
Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?
He said, *To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
*Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
but the LORD has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.