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.