¹¹He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven^y has been given to you,^z but not to them. ¹²Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.^a ¹³This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;

though hearing, they do not hear or understand.^b

¹⁴In them is fulfilled^c the prophecy of Isaiah:

“ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;

you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

¹⁵For this people’s heart has become calloused;

they hardly hear with their ears,

and they have closed their eyes.

Otherwise they might see with their eyes,

hear with their ears,

understand with their hearts

and turn, and I would heal them.’^a^d

¹⁶But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.^e ¹⁷For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see^f but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

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Footnotes

a Isaiah 6:9, 10 (see Septuagint)

Cross references

ySee Mt 3:2
z Mt 11:25; 16:17; 19:11; Jn 6:65; 1 Co 2:10, 14; Col 1:27; 1 Jn 2:20, 27
aSee Mt 25:29
b Dt 29:4; Jer 5:21; Eze 12:2
cver 35; See Mt 1:22
d Isa 6:9, 10; Jn 12:40; Ac 28:26, 27; Ro 11:8
e Mt 16:17
f Jn 8:56; Heb 11:13; 1 Pe 1:10–12