13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
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This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
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In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.