I have already said more than I should.

More than once I have heard God say that power belongs to him

Although the LORD warned Manasseh and his people, they refused to listen.

I have been calling you, inviting you to come, but you would not listen. You paid no attention to me.

You have never had any use for knowledge and have always refused to obey the LORD.

So he told me to go and give the people this message: "No matter how much you listen, you will not understand. No matter how much you look, you will not know what is happening."

So the prophecy of Isaiah applies to them: 'This people will listen and listen, but not understand; they will look and look, but not see,

Jesus knew what they were saying, so he asked them, "Why are you discussing about not having any bread? Don't you know or understand yet? Are your minds so dull?

You have eyes---can't you see? You have ears---can't you hear? Don't you remember

Then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are, how slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!

This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.