Matthew 13:15-17
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
15 For the heart of this people became dull[a], and they hardly[b] heard with their ears, and they closed their eyes that[c] they might not ever see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand in their heart and turn-back, and I shall heal[d] them’. 16 But blessed[e] are your eyes because they are seeing, and your ears, because they are hearing. 17 For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous ones desired to experience[f] the things which you are seeing, and they did not experience them, and to hear the things which you are hearing, and they did not hear them.
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- Matthew 13:15 Or, thick, fat, insensitive.
- Matthew 13:15 That is, with difficulty. They are spiritually hard of hearing.
- Matthew 13:15 This expresses the purpose of the people. They willfully closed their eyes to God that they might not ever see what they did not want to see, and never have to change their ways and return to God.
- Matthew 13:15 Or, would heal. This is what God would do if they saw, heard, understood, and turned back, but they refuse to take this path.
- Matthew 13:16 Or, fortunate.
- Matthew 13:17 Or, see, but not the same word as next.
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