'Hardened' in the Bible
because they had not understood about the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened.
Aware of this, He said to them, “Why are you discussing that you do not have any bread? Don’t you understand or comprehend? Is your heart hardened?
He has blinded their eyesand hardened their hearts,so that they would not see with their eyesor understand with their hearts,and be converted,and I would heal them.
But when some became hardened and would not believe, slandering the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them and met separately with the disciples, conducting discussions every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for, but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,
But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.