Matthew 13:15

For 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.’

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

In Context

14And 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

16But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

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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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