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38 This proved that the prophet Isaiah was right: God, who believed what we preached? Who recognized God's arm, outstretched and ready to act?
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This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39 First they wouldn't believe, then they couldn't - again, just as Isaiah said:
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For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:
40 Their eyes are blinded, their hearts are hardened, So that they wouldn't see with their eyes and perceive with their hearts, And turn to me, God, so I could heal them.
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“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.”
41 Isaiah said these things after he got a glimpse of God's cascading brightness that would pour through the Messiah.
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Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.
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