Acts 28:26 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 28:26

‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”

BSB

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ASV

saying, Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

KJV

Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:

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Commentary

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John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Hearing ye shall hear - That is, ye shall most surely hear, and shall not understand - The words manifestly denote a judicial blindness, consequent upon a wilful and obstinate resistance of the truth.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
λέγων·	legōn	he is saying:	G3004 →
πορεύθητι	poreuthēti	do go	G4198 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
λαὸν	laon	people	G2992 →
τοῦτον	touton	this	G3778 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
εἰπόν·	eipon	do say;	G2036 →
ἀκοῇ	akoēa	In hearing	G189 →
ἀκούσετε	akousete	you will hear	G191 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οὐ	ou	certainly	G3756 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
συνῆτε,	sunēte	may understand,	G4920 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
βλέποντες	blepontes	in looking	G991 →
βλέψετε	blepsete	you will look	G991 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οὐ	ou	certainly	G3756 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
ἴδητε·	idēte	may perceive;	G1492 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Mark 4:12
so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”
leads to
- Jeremiah 5:21
  “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 6:9–10
  And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
- Isaiah 44:18
  They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
- Matthew 13:14–15
  In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
- Deuteronomy 29:4
  Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
Through
Ezekiel 12:2
“Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
leads to
- Mark 4:12
  so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”
- John 9:39–41
  Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
- Psalms 78:40
  How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

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