In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled: You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.

I tell you truly, many prophets and good men have longed to see what you see, but they have not seen it; and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it.

But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

Jesus said to him, "Even so! But I tell you, in future you will all see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

For I tell you many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, but they have not seen it: and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it."

You will then proceed to say, 'But we ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets!'

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer! He has escaped the sea, but Justice will not let him live."

when he said, Go and tell this people, 'You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.'

Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,

Not only so, but we triumph in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we now enjoy our reconciliation.

and not only so, but even we ourselves, who have the Spirit as a foretaste of the future, even we sigh to ourselves as we wait for the redemption of the body that means our full sonship.

You will say, "But branches were broken off to let me be grafted in!"

Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same?

However, what does the scripture say? Put away the slave-woman and her son, for the son of the slave-woman shall not be heir along with the son of the free-woman.

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),