9 And he went on to say: “Go, and you must say to this people, ‘Hear again and again, O men, but do not understand; and see again and again, but do not get any knowledge.’+
40 “He has blinded their eyes and he has made their hearts hard,+ that they should not see with their eyes and get the thought with their hearts and turn around and I should heal them.”+
14 But their mental powers were dulled.+ For to this present day the same veil remains unlifted at the reading of the old covenant,*+ because it is done away with by means of Christ.+