Matthew 13:12-15

12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.
13 This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’[a]

Cross References 4

  • 1. S Matthew 25:29; Luke 19:26
  • 2. Deuteronomy 29:4; Jeremiah 5:21; Ezekiel 12:2
  • 3. ver 35; S Matthew 1:22
  • 4. Isaiah 6:9,10; John 12:40; Acts 28:26,27; Romans 11:8

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Isaiah 6:9,10 (see Septuagint)
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