And he said, Go, and say unto this people, [a]Ye shall hear indeed, but ye shall not understand: ye shall plainly see, and not perceive.

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  1. Isaiah 6:9 Whereby is declared that for the malice of man God will not immediately take away his word, but he will cause it to be preached to their condemnation, when as they will not learn thereby to obey his will, and be saved: hereby he exhorteth the ministers to do their duty, and answereth to the wicked murmurers, that through their own malice their heart is hardened, Matt. 13:14; Acts 28:26; Rom. 11:8.

14 So in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which prophecy saith, (A)By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.

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10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the [a]secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others in parables, that when (A)they see, they should not see, and when they hear, they should not understand.

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  1. Luke 8:10 Those things are called secret, which may not be uttered: for the word used here, is as much as we say in our tongue, to hold a man’s peace.

40 (A)He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

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26 [a]Saying, (A)Go unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.

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  1. Acts 28:26 The unbelievers do willingly resist the truth, and yet not by chance.

[a]According as it is written, (A)God hath given them the spirit of [b]slumber: eyes that they [c]should not see, and ears that they should not hear unto this day.

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  1. Romans 11:8 And yet this hardness of heart cometh not but by God’s just decree and judgment, and yet without fault, whom as he so punisheth the unthankful by taking from them all sense and perseverance and by doubling their darkness, that the benefits of God which are offered unto them, do redound to their just destruction.
  2. Romans 11:8 A very dead sleep which taketh away all sense.
  3. Romans 11:8 That is, eyes unjust to see.

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