Romans 11:8
The rest became callous; as the Scripture says, "God has thrown them into a state of spiritual insensibility, with eyes that cannot see and cars that cannot hear, that has lasted down to this day."
Matthew 13:13-14
This is why I speak to them in figures, because though they look they do not see, and though they listen they do not hear or understand.
Mark 4:11-12
And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,
Luke 8:10
And he said, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but they are given to others in the form of figures, so that they may look and yet not see, and hear and yet not understand.
Acts 28:26
" 'Go to this Nation and say to them, "You will listen, and listen, and never understand, And you will look, and look, and never see!
2 Corinthians 3:14-15
Their minds were dulled. For to this day, that same veil remains unlifted, when they read the old agreement, for only through union with Christ is it removed.