Matthew 13:14

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says: 1 ‘ Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, 1 and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive. 1

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

13Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

15For the heart of this people has become dull, 1 and their ears are hard of hearing, 1 and their eyes have closed, 1 lest they should see with their eyes, 1 and hear with their ears, 1 lest they should understand with their hearts and turn back, 1 that I should heal them.’

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Cross References

Mark 4:12so that 1 ‘ Seeing they may see and not perceive, 1 and hearing they may hear and not understand; 1 Lest they should turn, 1 and their sins be forgiven them.’ ” 1 The Parable of the Sower Explained

John 12:39Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again: 1

Romans 11:8Just as it is written: 1 “ God has given them a spirit of stupor, 1 eyes that they should not see, 1 and ears that they should not hear, 1 down to this very day.”

Matthew Henry on Matthew 13:2-24

The Parable of the Sower; Why Christ Taught in Parables; Of the Sower and the Seed. 1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where… Read the whole commentary →

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