12. For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
13. For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.
14. Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:You will listen and listen,yet never understand;and you will look and look,yet never perceive.
15. For this people’s heart has grown callous;their ears are hard of hearing,and they have shut their eyes;otherwise they might see with their eyesand hear with their ears,understand with their heartsand turn back —and I would cure them.
16. “But your eyes are blessed because they do see, and your ears because they do hear!
17. For I assure you: Many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see yet didn’t see them; to hear the things you hear yet didn’t hear them.