Matthew 13:10-17

10Then the disciples came and said to Jesus,“Why do you speak to peopled in parables?”

11He answered them, “You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but it hasn't been given to them. 12For to anyone who has something, more will be given, and he will have more than enough. But from the one who doesn't have anything, even what he has will be taken away from him. 13That's why I speak to them in parables, because

‘they look but don't see,and they listen but don't hear or understand.’

14“With them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which
says

‘You will listen and listen but never understand.
You will look and look but never comprehend.
15 For this people's heart has become dull,
and their ears are hard of hearing.
They have shut their eyes
so that they might not see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn,
and I would heal them.’

 

16“How blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear! 17For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see but did not see them, and to hear the things you hear but did not hear them.”