John 12:40
"He has blinded their eyes and benumbed their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and turn to me to cure them."
Matthew 13:13-15
This is why I am speaking to them in stories, because they look but do not see, they listen but do not really hear or understand.
Mark 4:12
'They may look and look and yet not see, And listen and listen and yet not understand, Lest, perchance, they should turn and be forgiven.'"
Luke 8:10
So He said, "You are granted the privilege of knowing the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others they are told in stories, so that they may look and not see, may hear and not understand.
Matthew 15:14
Let them alone. They are blind teachers! And if one blind man guides another, they will both fall into the ditch."
Mark 6:52
for they did not understand the lesson of the loaves; their minds were dull.
Mark 8:17-18
And as He noticed it He said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? Are your minds so dull?
Luke 4:18
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and
John 9:39
Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge people, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind."
Acts 3:19
So now repent and turn to Him, to have your sins wiped out, that times of revival may come from the presence of the Lord,
Acts 15:3
So they were endorsed and sent on by the church, and as they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told of the conversion of the heathen and brought great rejoicing to all the brothers.
Acts 28:26
'Go to this people and say to them, "You will listen, and listen, and never understand, and you will look, and look, and never see!
Romans 9:18
So He has mercy on any man that He chooses to, and He hardens any man that He chooses to harden.
Romans 11:7-11
What are we then to conclude? Israel has failed to obtain what it is still in search for, but His chosen ones have obtained it. The rest have become insensible to it,
James 5:19-20
My brothers, if any one of you has wandered away from the truth, and someone brings him back,