'Hearing' in the Bible
And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around him and hearing the word of God, he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret,
After he had finished all his statements in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
And he said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest [they are] in parables, so that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
But the [seed] on the good soil--these are the ones who, [after] hearing the word, hold fast to [it] with a noble and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance.
And they did not find anything they could do, because all the people were paying close attention to [what] they were hearing from him.