Matthew 13:15 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁵ For the heart of this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

¹² so that for all their seeing they may not perceive, and for all their hearing they may not understand, lest they turn and be forgiven."

⁴³ Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying. ⁴⁴ You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

¹⁹ Repent then, and turn to have your sins blotted out, so that a breathing-space may be vouchsafed you,

⁵⁷ With a loud shriek they shut their ears and rushed at him like one man.

¹⁰ and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them. ¹¹ Therefore God visits them with an active delusion, till they put faith in falsehood,

²⁵ he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition — God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth; ²⁶ they may come to their senses again and escape the snare of the devil, as they are brought back to life by God to do his will.

⁴ they will give up listening to the Truth and turn to myths.

¹¹ On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing.

⁴ For in the case of people who have been once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly Gift, who participated in the holy Spirit, ⁵ who tasted the goodness of God's word and the powers of the world to come, and then fell away — ⁶ it is impossible to make them repent afresh, since they crucify the Son of God in their own persons and hold him up to obloquy.

² through the streets of the City; on both sides of the river grew the tree of Life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, each month having its own fruit; and the leaves served to heal the nations.