12. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.
13. This is why I speak to them in parables:‘Though seeing, they do not see;though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:‘ “You will be ever hearing but never understanding;you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15. For 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 heartsand turn, and I would heal them.”
16. But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
17. For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.