Matthew 13:13-15 This is why I speak to them in figures, because though they look they do not see, and though they listen they do not hear or understand.

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹³ This is why I speak to them in figures, because though they look they do not see, and though they listen they do not hear or understand. ¹⁴ They are a fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy, " 'You will listen and listen, and never understand, And you will look and look, and never see! ¹⁵ For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!'