Mark 6:52

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

He looked around at them all, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.

Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

When it rested, he said, “Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.”

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

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

He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

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.’ ”

He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.” ’

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.

Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.

He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone?’

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.

All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’ ” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”

How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

His disciples answered him, “From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?”

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,