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27 For the heart of this people has become dull,[a]
and their ears are hard of hearing,[b]
and they have closed their eyes,
so that they would not see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart
and turn,[c] and I would heal them.”’[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 28:27 tn Or “insensitive.”sn The heart of this people has become dull. The charge from Isaiah is like Stephen’s against the Jews of Jerusalem (Acts 7:51-53). They were a hard-hearted and disobedient people.
  2. Acts 28:27 tn Grk “they hear heavily with their ears” (an idiom for slow comprehension).
  3. Acts 28:27 sn Note how the failure to respond to the message of the gospel is seen as a failure to turn.
  4. Acts 28:27 sn A quotation from Isa 6:9-10.