Matthew 13:15

God also said to Isaiah, These people have become unresponsive [MTY] to what they see me do and to what they hear me say. They listen unwillingly [MTY] to what I say, and they do not pay attention to [MTY] what I do. If it were not so, they would perceive [MTY] what I am doing, they would understand [MTY] what I say to them, and they would turn away from their sinful lives and turn to me, and I would save them from being punished for their sins [MET].

Translation for Translators

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

14What these people do completely fulfills what God told the prophet Isaiah to say long ago to the people who did not try to understand what he said, You will hear what I say, but you will not understand it. You will keep seeing what I do, but you will not understand what it means [DOU].

16But as for you, God is pleased with you because you [SYN] have seen what I have done and because you [SYN] understand what I say [DOU].

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Cross References

Psalms 119:70Those proud people ◄are stupid/do not understand your laws► [IDM], but as for me, I am delighted with your laws.

Isaiah 6:10What you(sg) say will cause these people to become stubborn [IDM]; it will cause them to not be able to hear what I say and see what I do. As a result, they will not see what I want them to see or hear what I want them to hear, and they will not understand it, and they will not turn to me and be saved from being punished.”

Isaiah 44:20They are very stupid to worship something that if you burn it, it becomes ashes! They trust in something that cannot save them; they do not admit, “In my hand I hold something that is not really a god! [RHQ]”

Jeremiah 3:22Yahweh will say to them, “You Israeli people, come back to me! If you do that, I will cause you to never turn away from me again.” The people will reply, “We are returning to you, because you are Yahweh, our God.

Jeremiah 33:6However, there will be a time when I will cause the people in this city to be healthy and strong again. I will enable them to be prosperous and have peace.

Zechariah 7:11But the people refused to pay attention to what Yahweh said. They turned their backs to him, and put their hands over their ears in order to not hear what he said.

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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