13 I speak to them in figurative language for this reason, that while looking they do not see, and while hearing they neither hear nor understand.
14 And in regard to them the prophecy of Isaiah is receiving signal fulfilment: »You will hear and hear and by no means understand, and you will look and look and by no means see.
15 For this people's mind is stupefied, their hearing has become dull, and their eyes they have closed; to prevent their ever seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears, or understanding with their minds, and turning back, so that I might heal them.'«