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 the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with {their} eyes, and hear with {their} ears, and understand with {their} heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

As also in all {his} epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as {they do} also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.

And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able {to bear it}, neither yet now are ye able.

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak {this} to your shame.

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you {of} heavenly things?

Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

As also in all {his} epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as {they do} also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

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.

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear {it}.

And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

{Even} these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these {be}? And I said, No, my lord.

Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard {this}, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?