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And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’

Isaiah 6:9

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Matthew 13:14Fulfilled in

You will be ever hearing but never understanding — Jesus explains parables

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

John 12:40Fulfilled in

He has blinded their eyes — John quotes Isaiah on unbelief

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”

Matthew 13:14Quoted in

You will be ever hearing but never understanding

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

Acts 28:26Quoted in

Go to this people and say: You will be ever hearing but never understanding

‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”

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