40 “He has blinded their eyes
    and hardened their hearts,
lest they see with their[a] eyes
    and understand with their[b] hearts
and turn, and I heal them.”[c]

41 Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory, and he spoke about him.

42 Yet despite that, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it,[d] so that they would not be expelled from the synagogue.

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:40 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. John 12:40 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  3. John 12:40 A quotation from Isa 6:10
  4. John 12:42 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation