Matthew 13:13 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹³ This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ This is the reason that I speak to them in parables: because having the power of seeing, they do not see; and having the power of hearing, they do not hear, nor do they grasp and understand.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Common English Bible

¹³ This is why I speak to the crowds in parables: although they see, they don’t really see; and although they hear, they don’t really hear or understand.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Matthew 13:13 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 44:18

They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so that they cannot see, and their minds closed so that they cannot understand.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:

Ezekiel 12:2

‘Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, ‘Sovereign Lord, they are saying of me, “Isn’t he just telling parables?” ’

Matthew 13:16

But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

Romans 11:8

as it is written: ‘God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day.’