Matthew 13:13 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

¹³ That is why I speak to them in parables, because ‘they see but do not perceive, and they hear but do not listen 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

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 not to see and ears not to hear, down to this very day.”