• Isaiah 6:9, 10
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    •  9 And he replied, “Go, and say to this people:

      ‘You will hear again and again,

      But you will not understand;

      You will see again and again,

      But you will not get any knowledge.’+

      10 Make the heart of this people unreceptive,+

      Make their ears unresponsive,+

      And paste their eyes together,

      So that they may not see with their eyes

      And hear with their ears,

      So that their heart may not understand

      And they may not turn back and be healed.”+

  • Mark 4:11, 12
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 11 He said to them: “To you the sacred secret+ of the Kingdom of God has been given, but to those outside all things are in illustrations,+ 12 so that, though looking, they may look and still not see, and though hearing, they may hear and still not get the sense of it; nor will they ever turn back and receive forgiveness.”+