And whoever does not receive you nor listen to your words, as you leave that house or city, shake the dust off your feet.

And in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘You shall keep on listening, but shall not understand; And you shall keep on looking, but shall not perceive;

The Sower Explained

“Listen then to the parable of the sower.

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to Him!”

Discipline and Prayer

“Now if your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that on the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be confirmed.

And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, he is to be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Parable of the Landowner

“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and he leased it to vine-growers and went on a journey.