Matthew 13:15 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹⁵ For the mind of this nation has grown dense, And their ears are dull of hearing, Their eyes also have they closed; Lest some day they should perceive with their eyes, And with their ears they should hear, And in their mind they should understand, and should turn--And I should heal them.'

¹² 'Though they have eyes, they may see without perceiving; And though they have ears, they may hear without understanding; Lest some day they should turn and be forgiven.'

⁴³ How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my Message. ⁴⁴ As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.

¹⁹ Therefore, repent and turn, that your sins may be wiped away; so that happier times may come from the Lord himself,

⁵⁷ At this, with a loud shout, they stopped their ears and all rushed upon him, forced him outside the city,

¹⁰ to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the Truth to their own Salvation. ¹¹ That is why God places them under the influence of a delusion, to cause them to believe a lie;

²⁵ He should instruct his opponents in a gentle spirit; for, possibly, God may give them a repentance that will lead to a fuller knowledge of Truth, ²⁶ and they may yet come to a sober mind, and escape from the snares of the Devil, when captured by the Lord's Servant to do the will of God.

⁴ They will turn a deaf ear to the Truth, and give their attention to legends instead.

¹¹ Now on this subject I have much to say, but it is difficult to explain it to you, because you have shown yourselves so slow to learn.

⁴ For if those who were once for all brought into the Light, and learned to appreciate the gift from Heaven, and came to share in the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and learned to appreciate the beauty of the Divine Message, and the new powers of the Coming Age-- ⁶ if those, I say, fell away, it would be impossible to bring them again to repentance; they would be crucifying the Son of God over again for themselves, and exposing him to open contempt.

² in the middle of the street of the City. On each side of the river was a Tree of Life which bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.