Matthew 13:14

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

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

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

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

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

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

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

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.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

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

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

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.’

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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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.

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

“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.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

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.’ ”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

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,

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

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

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

“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.”

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

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

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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.

He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs numbered one thousand five.

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

Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.