⁹ He said, “Go^(A) and tell this people:

¹³ This is why I speak to them in parables:

¹⁴ In them is fulfilled^(A) the prophecy of Isaiah:

¹² so that,

¹⁸ Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?

¹⁰ He said, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you,^(A) but to others I speak in parables, so that,

³⁹ Jesus said,^[a] “For judgment^(A) I have come into this world,^(B) so that the blind will see^(C) and those who see will become blind.”^(D)

⁴⁰ Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”^(E)

⁴¹ Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.^(F)