12 Then the book is delivered to one who [a]is illiterate, saying, “Read this, please.”

And he says, “I am not literate.”

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  1. Isaiah 29:12 Lit. does not know books

12 Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”

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15 (A)And the Jews marveled, saying, “How does this Man know letters, having never studied?”

16 [a]Jesus answered them and said, (B)“My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

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  1. John 7:16 NU, M So Jesus

15 The Jews(A) there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning(B) without having been taught?”(C)

16 Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.(D)

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(A)My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
(B)Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

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    my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.(A)

“Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law(B) of your God,
    I also will ignore your children.

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Therefore I said, “Surely these are poor.
They are foolish;
For (A)they do not know the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.

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I thought, “These are only the poor;
    they are foolish,(A)
for they do not know(B) the way of the Lord,
    the requirements of their God.

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18 (A)In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book,
And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

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18 In that day(A) the deaf(B) will hear the words of the scroll,
    and out of gloom and darkness(C)
    the eyes of the blind will see.(D)

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12 To whom He said, “This is the (A)rest with which
You may cause the weary to rest,”
And, “This is the refreshing”;
Yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the Lord was to them,
“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little,”
That they might go and fall backward, and be broken
And snared and caught.

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12 to whom he said,
    “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”;(A)
and, “This is the place of repose”—
    but they would not listen.
13 So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that;
    a little here, a little there(B)
so that as they go they will fall backward;
    they will be injured(C) and snared and captured.(D)

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