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Matthew 13:15

World English Bible

for this people’s heart has grown callous,
their ears are dull of hearing,
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.’

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Matthew 13:15 in other translations

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.

Matthew 13:15 · American Standard Version

Matthew 13:15 in context

  1. 13Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
  2. 14In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says,
    ‘By hearing you will hear,
    and will in no way understand;
    Seeing you will see,
    and will in no way perceive:
  3. 15for this people’s heart has grown callous,
    their ears are dull of hearing,
    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.’
  4. 16“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
  5. 17For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.