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Matthew 13:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive; "

Matthew 13:14

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12 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;

15 for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’

16 “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

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Acts 28:26

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"saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive."

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Luke 10:24

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"for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”"

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Mark 4:12

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"that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”"

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Jeremiah 5:21

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"‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:"

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Isaiah 32:3

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"The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen."

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Isaiah 42:18

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"“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see."

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Matthew 13:1

"On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside."

Matthew 13:2

"Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach."

Matthew 13:3

"He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow."

Matthew 13:4

"As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them."

Matthew 13:5

"Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth."

Matthew 13:6

"When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away."

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