5 Bible Verses about Spiritual Deafness
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For this people's mind is stupefied, their hearing has become dull, and their eyes they have closed; to prevent their ever seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears, or understanding with their minds, and turning back, so that I might heal them.'
"'Go to this people and tell them, you will hear and hear, and by no means understand; and will look and look, and by no means see.
"Listen," He added, "every one who has ears to listen with!" When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language. "To you," He replied, "has been entrusted the secret truth concerning the Kingdom of God; but to those others outside your number all this is spoken in figurative language;read more.
that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'"
"To you," He replied, "it is granted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God; but all others are taught by parables, in order that they may see and yet not see, and may hear and yet not understand.