For this people’s heart has grown callous.
Their ears are dull of hearing.
Their eyes they have closed.
Lest they should see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their heart,
and would turn again,
then I would heal them.’†
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Acts 28:27 in context
Acts 28:24–30
24
Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.
25
When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one message: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,
26
saying,
‘Go to this people and say,
in hearing, you will hear,
but will in no way understand.
In seeing, you will see,
but will in no way perceive.
27
Selected verse
For this people’s heart has grown callous.
Their ears are dull of hearing.
Their eyes they have closed.
Lest they should see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their heart,
and would turn again,
then I would heal them.’†
28
“Be it known therefore to you that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
29
When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.
30
Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him,
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