13 This is why I speak to them in figures, because though they look they do not see, and though they listen they do not hear or understand.
Matthew 13:13 Cross References - Goodspeed
Matthew 13:16
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they do see, and your ears, for they do hear.
Mark 8:17-18
John 3:19-20
John 9:39-41
39 And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."
40 Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?"
41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would be guilty of no sin, but as it is, you say 'We can see'; so your sin continues.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
3 If the meaning of my preaching of the good news is veiled at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.
4 In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep the light of the good news of the glorious Christ, the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.