Matthew 13:13-17

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Matthew 13:13-17

This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;

though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

For this people’s heart has become calloused;
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.’

But blessed are your eyes because they see,
and your ears because they hear.
For truly I tell you,
many prophets and righteous people
longed to see what you see
but did not see it,
and to hear what you hear
but did not hear it.