9 See ch. 11:15He who has ears,13:9 Some manuscripts add here and in verse 43 to hearlet him hear."
13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because Deut. 29:4;Jer. 5:21;Ezek. 12:2;Rom. 11:8;2 Cor. 3:14;4:4;[Isa. 42:19,20] seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, ver. 19, 51;ch. 15:10;16:12;Mark 8:21nor do they understand.14 Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:
John 12:40;Acts 28:26,27;Cited from Isa. 6:9,10"‘"You will indeed hear but never understand,
and you will indeed see but never perceive."
15 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and with their ears[Heb. 5:11] they can barely hear,
and[John 9:39,41]their eyes they have closed,
lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and[Rom. 10:10]understand with their heart
and See Luke 22:32turn, and I would heal them.’
23 As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and [See ver. 19above] understands it. He indeed Hos. 14:8;John 15:5,16;Phil. 1:11;Col. 1:6bears fruit and yields, in one case ver. 8a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty."