²⁷ They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father.

⁹ And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

¹⁸ Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

¹⁹ Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that is at peace `with me', and blind as Jehovah's servant?

²⁰ Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not.

¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

⁴³ Why do ye not understand my speech? `Even' because ye cannot hear my word.

⁴⁷ He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause ye hear `them' not, because ye are not of God.

⁷ What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

⁸ 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, unto this very day.

⁹ And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:

¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always.

³ And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish:

⁴ in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn `upon them'.