MATTHEW 13:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.”
For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them. The Isaiah quotation identifies the source of the hearing and seeing problem as the people's own choice: they have closed their eyes. The closing is not arbitrary divine action but the judgment that falls on those who deliberately resist the prophetic word. The healing that would follow genuine turning is the healing Jesus has been performing — and which the Pharisees attributed to Satan.
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