12. Those who understand ⌊these mysteries⌋ will be given ⌊more knowledge⌋, and they will excel ⌊in understanding them⌋. However, some people don’t understand ⌊these mysteries⌋. Even what they understand will be taken away from them.
13. This is why I speak to them this way. They see, but they’re blind. They hear, but they don’t listen. They don’t even try to understand.
14. So they make Isaiah’s prophecy come true:‘You will hear clearly but never understand.You will see clearly but never comprehend.
15. These people have become close-mindedand hard of hearing.They have shut their eyesso that their eyes never see.Their ears never hear.Their minds never understand.And they never return to me for healing!’
16. “Blessed are your eyes because they see and your ears because they hear.
17. I can guarantee this truth: Many prophets and many of God’s people longed to see what you see but didn’t see it, to hear what you hear but didn’t hear it.