This is why I speak to them in parables: 'Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.' Cross References Deuteronomy 29:4 Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear. Isaiah 42:19 Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD? Isaiah 42:20 Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear." Jeremiah 5:21 "Hear this, O 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 in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house. Ezekiel 20:49 Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, 'Is he not just telling parables?'" John 9:39 Then Jesus declared, "For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind." 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." Treasury of Scripture Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Matthew 13:16 Deuteronomy 29:3,4 Isaiah 42:18-20 |