Matthew 13:15
Greek Text— Matthew 13:15for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, 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.’
Morphological data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?
he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.
Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.
For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
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.
Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”
He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
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.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.
because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
“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.”
and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—
Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
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.’
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
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.”
Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
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.
and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.
‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
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.”
Then he said to me, “These waters flow out toward the eastern region, and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go toward the sea; and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed.
“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of 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.’ ”
I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
“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,
But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.