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13 That’s why I speak to them in parables, because

‘they look but don’t see,
    and they listen but don’t hear or understand.’

14 “With them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says:

‘You will listen and listen but never understand.
    You will look and look but never comprehend,
15 for this people’s heart has become dull,
    and their ears are hard of hearing.[a]
They have shut their eyes
    so that they might not see with their eyes,
        and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart and turn,
    and I would heal them.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:15 Lit. they hear with ears of heaviness
  2. Matthew 13:15 Cf. Isa 6:9-10