Study it in the app“For the heart of this people has grown dull, and with their ears they have heard with difficulty, and they have closed their eyes, so that they do not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I will heal them.’”
Forγὰρthe heartἡ καρδίαof thisτοῦ τούτουpeopleλαοῦhas grown dull,ἐπαχύνθηandκαὶwith their earsτοῖς ὠσὶνthey have heardἤκουσανwith difficulty,βαρέωςandκαὶthey have closedἐκάμμυσανtheirαὐτῶνeyes,τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺςso that they do notμήποτεseeἴδωσινwith their eyesτοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖςandκαὶhearἀκούσωσινwith their earsτοῖς ὠσὶνandκαὶunderstandσυνῶσινwith their heartτῇ καρδίᾳandκαὶturn,ἐπιστρέψωσινandκαὶI will healἰάσομαιthem.’αὐτούς
heart
Heart: the center of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides.
Where else “kardia” appearspeople
A people, above all Israel, God's people.
Where else “laou” appearsgrow dull
Grow fat; become dull, unfeeling, hardened.
Where else “epachynthē” appearshearing
Being able to hear and understand: "whoever can hear, let him hear".
Where else “ōsin” appearshear
To perceive a sound, a voice or words with the ears.
Where else “ēkousan” appearswith difficulty
Heavily, with difficulty.
Where else “bareōs” appearsclose the eyes
Close one's eyes.
Where else “ekammysan” appearseye
The organ of sight, in the face.
Where else “ophthalmous” appearslest
Expresses fear that something bad may happen, so as to avoid it.
Where else “mēpote” appearssee
To perceive with sight, to look and notice what is in front.
Where else “idōsin” appearsunderstand
Understand, grasp.
Where else “synōsin” appearsturn to God
To come back to God, or bring others back to him.
Where else “epistrepsōsin” appearsheal
Heal, cure.
Where else “iasomai” appearsOther books that tell the same thing or quote these words.
Why Jesus speaks in parables
Matthew 13:10-17
10And the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” 11But he answered and said to them, “Because to you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. 13This is why I speak to them in parables: because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘You will indeed hear and never understand, and you will indeed see and never perceive. 15For the heart of this people has grown dull, and with their ears they have heard with difficulty, and they have closed their eyes, so that they do not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I will heal them.’ 16But happy are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. 17For truly I tell you that many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
10And when he was alone, those around him with the Twelve were asking him about the parables. 11And he was saying to them, “To you the mystery of the kingdom of God has been given; but for those outside, everything comes in parables, 12so that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they turn and it be forgiven them.’”
9And his disciples were asking him what this parable might mean. 10And he said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
14And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘You will indeed hear and never understand, and you will indeed see and never perceive.
15 · This verse (above)
16But happy are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.
1. What it says
On which four kinds of ground did the sower's seed fall (vv. 4–8)?
2. What it means
Why did Jesus teach the crowds in parables (vv. 10–13)?
3. How I live it
In the sower's parable, worry can choke the word (v. 22). What chokes it most in your day?
