Matthew 13:15 “For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their…”

Matthew 13:15

For this people’s heart has grown callous; 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.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’

American Standard Version

For this people’s heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

Geneva Bible 1599

For this peoples heart is waxed fat, and their eares are dull of hearing, and with their eyes they haue winked, lest they should see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and should vnderstand with their hearts, and should returne, that I might heale them.

Darby Translation

for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Young's Literal Translation

for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

Bible in Basic English

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

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Cross references

“heart”

Psalm 119:70

Psalm 119:70 · BSB

Their hearts are callous and insensitive, but I delight in Your law.

“ears”

Zechariah 7:11 Hebrews 5:11 Acts 7:57 2 Timothy 4:4 John 8:43 John 8:44

Zechariah 7:11 · BSB

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.

Hebrews 5:11 · BSB

We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.

Acts 7:57 · BSB

At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.

2 Timothy 4:4 · BSB

So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

John 8:43 · BSB

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

John 8:44 · BSB

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native langua…

“their eyes”

Isaiah 29:10–12 Isaiah 44:20 2 Thessalonians 2:10 2 Thessalonians 2:11

Isaiah 29:10–12 · BSB

For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

Isaiah 44:20 · BSB

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

2 Thessalonians 2:10 · BSB

and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

2 Thessalonians 2:11 · BSB

For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,

“and should be”

Hebrews 6:4–6 Acts 3:19 2 Timothy 2:25 2 Timothy 2:26

Hebrews 6:4–6 · BSB

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,

Acts 3:19 · BSB

Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

2 Timothy 2:25 · BSB

He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 2:26 · BSB

Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

“and I”

Mark 4:12 Jeremiah 17:14 Malachi 4:2 Revelation 22:2 Isaiah 57:18 Jeremiah 33:6

Mark 4:12 · BSB

so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’ ”

Jeremiah 17:14 · BSB

Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

Malachi 4:2 · BSB

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

Revelation 22:2 · BSB

down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of…

Isaiah 57:18 · BSB

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

Jeremiah 33:6 · BSB

Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Also

Isaiah 6:10

Isaiah 6:10 · BSB

Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed. ”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

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

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