'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand;

and seeing you will see and not perceive.

15 For this people's heart has grown dull.

And their ears are hard of hearing,

and their eyes they have closed,

lest they should see with their eyes,

and hear with their ears,

and they understand with their hearts,

and turn so that I should heal them.'

16 But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear. 17 For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.