The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's manger, but Israel does not know; My people have not discerned.

And He said, Go, and tell this people, You listen to hear, but do not understand; you look to see, but do not perceive.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed.

Wait and wonder! Smear you eyes shut, blind! They have become drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

And the vision of all has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one who is literate saying, Please read this; and he says, I cannot, for it is sealed.

Therefore Jehovah said, Whereas this people draw near with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men;

Who is blind but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as he who is perfect, and blind as Jehovah's servant?

You see many things, but do not observe; opening the ears, but no one hears.

His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of Jehovah.

The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed, and are captured. Lo, they have rejected the Word of Jehovah; so what wisdom is in them?

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your sons.

For the lips of the priest should keep knowledge, and they should seek the Law from his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of Hosts.

But you have turned aside out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the Law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is a debtor.

And, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it is a debtor.

Therefore he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it.

And he who swears by Heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.

Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?

For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

For ever since the creation of the world the unseen things of Him are clearly perceived, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

Professing to be wise, they become foolish,

But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

But also if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,

whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

and with all unrighteous deception among those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the twisted is precipitated.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

Answer a fool according to his folly, that he not be wise in his own eyes.

A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. And He left them and departed.

So they answered Jesus and said, We do not know. And He said to them, Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, I praise You, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it was pleasing in Your sight.

All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

So they answered that they did not know where it was from.

And Jesus said to them, Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, came together and led Him into their council, saying,

And if I also ask you, you will by no means answer Me or let Me go.

He answered them, I told you already, and you did not hear. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you not also want to become His disciples?