Mat 13:13-14 | ESV | STEP | This is why I speak to them in parables , because seeing they do not see , and hearing they do not hear , nor do they understand .

a Deut. 29:4; Jer. 5:21; Ezek. 12:2; Rom. 11:8; 2 Cor. 3:14; 4:4; [Isa. 42:19, 20]

b ver. 19, 51; ch. 15:10; 16:12; Mark 8:21

c John 12:40; Acts 28:26, 27; Cited from Isa. 6:9, 10

Matthew 13:13-14

13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because ^aseeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, ^bnor do they understand. 14 Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:

^c“‘“You will indeed hear but never understand,
and you will indeed see but never perceive.”