Acts 28:26
He said, Go and say to this people, 'You will listen and listen, but not understand. You will look and look, but not see.
Isaiah 6:9-10
He said: Go and tell this people: 'Hear constantly but do not understand. See constantly but do not perceive.'
Ezekiel 12:2
Son of man, you are living among rebellious people. They have eyes, but they cannot see. They have ears, but they cannot hear because they are rebellious people.
Isaiah 42:19-20
Is anyone more blind than my servant or more deaf than the messenger I send?
Matthew 13:14-15
The prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled. 'By hearing, you shall hear, and shall in no way understand. By seeing you shall see, and shall in no way perceive.
Mark 4:12
So that seeing they may see and not perceive. And hearing they may hear and not understand. Otherwise they might repent and be forgiven.
Luke 8:10
He said: You are meant to know the secrets of the kingdom of God. I speak to the rest in illustrations, that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand.
Deuteronomy 29:4
To this very day Jehovah has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
Psalm 81:11-12
My people did not listen to my voice. Israel did not obey me.
Isaiah 29:10
Jehovah has made you drowsy. He shut your eyes in a deep sleep you prophets and visionaries. He overwhelmed your leaders.
Isaiah 29:14
I will do things that shock and amaze them. I will destroy the wisdom of those who claim to know and understand (discern).
Isaiah 66:4
Therefore I will choose harsh treatment for them and bring on them what they fear. I called, but no one answered. I spoke, but they did not listen. They did what I consider evil. They chose what I do not like.
Jeremiah 5:21
Hear this, you stupid and senseless people! You have eyes, but you cannot see. You have ears, but you cannot hear.'
Ezekiel 3:6-7
I am not sending you to nations whose language is hard to understand, difficult to speak, or whose words you cannot understand. If I send you to those nations they will certainly listen to you.
Mark 8:17-18
Hearing this Jesus said: Why do you reason about having no bread? Do you not understand? Are your hearts dull of understanding?
Luke 24:25
He said to them: You are foolish men. You are slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
Luke 24:45
He opened their minds that they might understand the scriptures.
John 12:38-40
The word of Isaiah the prophet was fulfilled: Jehovah who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed? (Isaiah 53:1)
Romans 11:8-10
It is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear to this very day. (Deuteronomy 29:4)
2 Corinthians 4:4-6
The god of this age (world) (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement) has blinded the minds of unbelievers that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.