Matthew 13:13 Cross References - Moffatt

¹³ This is why I speak to them in parables, because for all their seeing they do not see and for all their hearing they do not hear or understand.

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears, for they hear!

¹⁷ He noted this and said to them, "Why do you argue you have no bread? Do you not see, do you not understand, even yet? Are you still dull of heart? ¹⁸ You have eyes, do you not see? you have ears, do you not hear?

¹⁹ And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil; ²⁰ for anyone whose practices are corrupt loathes the light and will not come out into it, in case his actions are exposed,

³⁹ Then said Jesus, "It is for judgment that I have come into this world, to make the sightless see, to make the seeing blind." ⁴⁰ On hearing this the Pharisees who were beside him asked, "And are we blind?" ⁴¹ Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty; but, as it is, you claim to have sight — and so your sin remains."

³ Even if my gospel is veiled, it is only veiled in the case of the perishing; ⁴ there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.