For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
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Gill's Exposition
But blessed are your eyes, for they see,.... Which is to be understood both of corporal and intellectual sight: it was their happiness to see Christ in the flesh, and converse with him in person, be…
Christ, in these verses, gives a “reason” why he used this manner of instruction. See also Mar 4:10-12; Luk 8:9-10. Mat 13:11 The mysteries of the kingdom - The word “mystery,” in the Bible, properly…
We have here Christ preaching, and may observe,
1. When Christ preached this sermon; it was the same day that he preached the sermon in the foregoing chapter: so unwearied was he in doing good, and…
Cambridge Bible
this people's heart is waxed gross The heart was regarded as the seat of intelligence. Gross, literally, fat, so stolid, dull, like pinguisin Latin.
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