2 Corinthians 3:14
but their minds were blinded. For to this day in reading the old covenant the same vail remains, not taken away because it is taken away in Christ;
Acts 13:15
And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the synagogue rulers sent to them, saying, Men and brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.
Romans 11:25
For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery; that you may not be wise in your own conceit. For hardness in part has come upon Israel, till the fullness of the gentiles shall come in,
Matthew 6:23
but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light which is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Matthew 13:11
And he answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given;
Matthew 13:13-15
For this reason I speak to them in parables; because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand.
Matthew 16:17
And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonas, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven.
Luke 18:31-34
AND Jesus took the twelve aside, and said to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and all things written by the prophets concerning the Son of man will be finished.
Luke 24:25-27
And he said to them, O foolish men, and of a mind slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken.
Luke 24:44-46
And he said to them, These are my words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things written in the law of Moses, and Prophets, and Psalms, concerning me, must be fully accomplished.
John 8:12
THEN Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.
John 9:39-41
And Jesus said, I came into this world for judgment, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing become blind.
John 12:40
He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I should cure them.
John 12:46
I have come a light into the world, that no one who believes in me should continue in darkness.
Acts 16:14
And a certain woman by the name of Lydia, a dealer in purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard, whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the [words] spoken by Paul.
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the sanctified by faith in me.
Acts 28:26-27
saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you shall hear and not understand, and seeing you shall see and not perceive;
Romans 11:7-10
What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained; and the rest were hardened,??8 as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear??o this day.
2 Corinthians 3:6
who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the writing but of the spirit; for the writing kills, but the spirit makes alive.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
But if our gospel is vailed it is vailed among the lost,
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:17-20
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;