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Matthew 13:13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

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Deuteronomy 29:3
the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.

Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

Ezekiel 14:9
“ ‘ “If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.

Micah 4:12
But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

John 3:19
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.

John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

John 8:43
Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

John 9:40
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

John 12:39
For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again:

Romans 1:31
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

2 Corinthians 3:14
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.

2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

2 Timothy 3:7
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Peter 3:5
For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

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Psalms 25:14
The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

Psalms 119:18
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Isaiah 29:11
All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”

Isaiah 29:18
In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

Acts 26:18
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.’

1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

1 Corinthians 2:10
But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

Ephesians 1:17
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

Ephesians 1:18
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,

1 John 5:20
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

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Matthew 13:23
What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

John 1:5
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

John 3:5
Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

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Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 13:1
On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.

Matthew 13:2
Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach.

Matthew 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

Matthew 13:35
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.”

Mark 4:33
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

John 16:29
His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.

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Luke 16:29
“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’

Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

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Romans 11:9
David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

Romans 11:10
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.”

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