John 8:27
They did not see that his words were about the Father.
Isaiah 6:9
And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.
Isaiah 42:18-20
Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
Isaiah 59:10
We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.
John 8:43
Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.
John 8:47
He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.
Romans 11:7-10
What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction: