¹¹He answered, “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know,^m but it has not been given to them. ¹²For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.ⁿ ¹³That is why I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see,^o and hearing they do not listen or understand.^p ¹⁴Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:

You will listen and listen,

but never understand;

you will look and look,

but never perceive.^q

¹⁵For this people’s heart has grown callous;

their ears are hard of hearing,

and they have shut their eyes;

otherwise they might see with their eyes,

and hear with their ears, and

understand with their hearts,

and turn back—

and I would heal them.^B^r

¹⁶“Blessed are your eyes^s because they do see, and your ears because they do hear.^t ¹⁷For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see but didn’t see them, to hear the things you hear but didn’t hear them.^u

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Cross references

k Mt 9:10; Mk 10:10; Lk 6:1; Jn 6:3; Ac 6:1
l Mt 13:35; 15:15; 21:33,45; 22:1; 24:32
m Mt 11:25; 19:11; Jn 6:65; 1Co 2:10; Col 1:27; 1Jn 2:20,27
n Mt 25:29; Lk 8:18; 19:26; Jn 15:2; Jms 4:6
o Dt 29:4; Is 42:19–20; Jr 5:21; Ezk 12:2
p Mt 15:10; 16:12; 17:13; Mk 8:21
q Is 6:9; Mk 4:12; Lk 8:10; Jn 12:40; Ac 28:26–27; Rm 11:8
B Is 6:9–10
r Is 6:10; Mt 15:8; Heb 5:11
s Lk 10:23–24
t Mt 16:17; Jn 20:29
u Jn 8:56; Heb 11:13; 1Pt 1:10–12