Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Mark 4:12 - King 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaAmplified 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. 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.’” |
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.