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14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says:

‘You will indeed hear but not understand,
    you will indeed look but never see.
15 For this people’s heart has become hardened;
    they have stopped up their ears
    and they have shut their eyes,
so that they might not see with their eyes
    and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart
    and then turn to me,
    and I would heal them.’

16 The Privilege of Discipleship.[a]“But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:16 The disciples, unlike the unbelieving crowds, have seen and heard what many prophets and righteous people of the Old Testament longed to see . . . and to hear without having their longing filled.